US H-1B visas available from 1 April 2013 – Apply Now!
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12:42 26/02/2013
Each fiscal year, the US issues 65,000 H-1B visas to employ foreign-born workers in graduate level 'specialty occupations' in the US. A further 20,000 H-1Bs are reserved for foreign nationals who...
US senators propose rise in number of H-1B visas
13:02 30/01/2013
Four senators, two Republicans and two Democrats, have come together to sponsor a new bill in the Senate that could, if it became law, see the US grant 300,000 H-1B visas a year. It would also see a...
Microsoft presses US immigration for H-1B reform
9:18 21/01/2013
Last year, Microsoft reported that it was looking for qualified IT professionals. Last September, it announced that it had 6,000 vacancies that it could not fill, 3,400 of these were IT roles. It...
Number of H1B visas granted to Indians goes up in 2012
19:19 14/01/2013
US consular staff in India report that the number of H category visas granted in US consulates in India rose by 16,000 in the 2012 financial year while the number of L-1 visas granted fell slightly...
USCIS introduces online policy manual
10:50 10/01/2013
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun the introduction of an online manual that will inform and guide all its staff worldwide. It is hoped that this will lead to...
Indian firms report increased difficulty in getting L-1B US visas
12:41 10/10/2012
Indian firms are reporting that it is increasingly difficult to obtain L category US visas for their staff. Ameet Nivsarkar, a vice president at Nasscom, the Indian software industry body, has said '...
