In an unprecedented movement and for the first time, US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) have carried out the third lottery, to choose additional registration (including master caps) to reach the H-1B hat quota for the fiscal year that began.
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The annual quota was 85,000 (including a 20,000 master close for those who had advanced US education qualifications).
With a door now open for international travel, the third lottery might be useful for sponsoring employers to fulfill the skill gap.
VISA H-1B is a very popular work visa, especially for India in the technology sector.
For the fiscal year 2022 (the year ended September 30, 2022), during the H-1B registration period, sponsoring employers has submitted a 3.08 lakh registration.
Usually, at least 60% of registration is for Indian beneficiaries (individuals sponsored for this work visa).
Read Alsomultiple registration for a single H-1B worker by a different ’employer’ challenged in a legal cluster: a group of 510 foreign nationals, including Indians, who are not chosen in the H-1B hat lottery which has just been concluded as a lawsuit.
They have challenged existing procedures, which allows a lot of registration to be submitted for the same individual, which in turn gave him an e-year registration system order, after registering the basic details of the beneficiaries, just posting lotteries, sponsoring employers needed to submit a detailed visa application for The selected.
According to USCIS, the submission period for the application based on the registration chosen in the third round held on November 19, starting on Monday and closed on February 23, 2022.
Individuals who have been chosen below the lottery, will have ‘MyusCis’ updated account to enter notifications Election, he added.
USCIS states that the H-1B subject petition must be properly submitted in the correct service center and in the archiving period shown in the notification of relevant registration selection.
Online archiving is not available for H-1B petition.
Earlier this year, in July, USCI had conducted a second random selection (referred to as a lottery) from the e-registry submitted for fiscal 2022.
This is the second year, where the second round is closed H-1B.
The lottery has been done.
However, the existing travel ban means that most of them are beneficial for stem-opt students who already exist in the US and which will transit to the H-1B visa.
Referring to the third round of random elections, Kripa Upadhyay, managing lawyers in the law orbit, said, “This means that many business entities face a decrease in Covid-19 and do not end up with archiving visa applications.
Both of them ‘play with the system’ by submitting a lot of speculative registrations which then cannot move forward due to lack of work / contract and employees who have delayed / paying several employers to file their registration so go with the one selected and leave some employers in Lurch! Either Way, USCIS needs to review the idea of ​​the lottery registration system as it is today.
“Meanwhile, a lawsuit filed by a group of 510 foreign nationals (including India), which was not selected in the H-1B visa lottery for FY 2022 was still delayed.
They have challenged existing procedures, which allowed a lot of registration to be submitted for the same individual, which in turn gave him a better chance to be chosen in the lottery.