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H1B visa Process the latest reforms There is
so much hustle and bustle about the latest
reforms in the H1B visa process. Many
petitioners are still unaware of these reforms
and their implementation in this cap
season. Here is a clear explanation of the
latest reforms in the H1B visa process and their
impact on the non-immigrants The 2 Latest
Reforms In The H1B Visa Process DHS (Department
of Homeland Security) has recently announced two
major changes in the H1B visa process. These
simple yet significant changes would impact the
employers and the employees in more ways than
one. Let us have a look at these reforms here.
The first major change in the H1B visa
process All the hassle of filing the petitions
of your non-immigrant employees would be ended
with this change. DHS has come up with an
electronic registration system to register your
H1B petitions prior to the petition filing. The
registrations would be enabled only during a
specific period as specified by the USCIS. Then
the lottery would run on these registered
applications, from which the required 85,000
applications would be picked. All the
corresponding employers or attorneys would be
informed of these selected applications, to file
the petitions for further processing. However,
all the employers out there, filing H1B petitions
are not relieved from the current time-consuming
process yet. Because USCIS has suspended the
implementation of this change for FY 2020 to
ensure its working.
The second major change in the H1B visa
process In opposition to the current H1B visa
process, the new process mandated a lottery on
the H1B regular cap prior to the cap
exempt. The regular cap petitions along with the
cap exempt petitions are subject to this lottery,
out of which 65,000 petitions are picked. The
selected regular cap petitions are sent for
further processing, while the unselected are
returned to the employers or attorneys along with
the fees.
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The unselected exempt petitions are now subjected
to the cap exempt lottery, which is run for the
unselected exempt petitions alone. Do you
know? The lottery process was started in the
Fiscal Year 2008 after USCIS has received
1,23,480 petitions for the first time.
Impact of the New H1B Visa Process Conducting
the cap exempt lottery first, used to give better
chances of selection for regular cap applicants
as the 20,000 applications selected in this
lottery would not be included in the regular cap
lottery. But with the new regulations, this
wouldnt be the case anymore. An increase in the
cap exempt petitions for the first lottery would
diminish the selection chances for the H1B
regular cap applicants. True to Trumps
statement of Buy American, Hire American, these
changes open the door for individuals graduated
from US universities with a Masters degree or
higher. At the same time, it restrains the
eligible American aspirers from working in the
US. Estimates say that there would a 16
increase in the selection of cap exempt
applicants compared to the previous years.
All these reforms during the cap season have put
many employers in dilemma regarding H1B petition
process. These can be overwhelming if you are
filing the H1B petitions without an attorney.
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