US Announce new H1B Visa policy
The United States formally announces new H1B Visa policy for foreign workers with higher qualifications, claims new policy which will come into effect from April 1, is more efficient and will facilitate the inflow of better talent to the US.
The United States administration announced that it will switch to a new system to process H-1B visa applications from April 1. The new system will give priority to foreign workers with advanced degrees from a university or college in the US over those hired abroad. More than three lakh Indians are believed to be on this work permit.
“These simple and smart changes are a positive benefit for employers, the foreign workers they seek to employ, and the agency’s adjudicators, helping the H-1B visa program work better,” said US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L Francis Cissna in a statement. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services runs the H-1B programme.
The H-1B visa allows US companies to employ skilled workers from abroad. In the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the administration had made it difficult to issue new H1-B visas or grant extensions to those already holding the visas.
The new system is estimated to increase the number of beneficiaries in the lottery who hold advanced degrees by 16% or 5,340 workers each year, the citizenship and immigration services said. This rule change is in line with President Donald Trump’s assertions on merit-based migration.
