H-1B Visa

USA: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services now has the ability to deny immigration applications based on being improperly or insufficiently filed. It can be done without sending an RFE to get the needed nor the ability for the…

USA: H-1B & L-1 Extension Extensions May Get Costly for Some U.S. Employers The Trump administration is examining a proposal that may dramatically hike visa renewal fees for some U.S. Workers on H-1B and L-1. The current…

New Delhi: Indian H-1B visa holders who travelled back this month to renew their American work permits are stranded amid their appointments being abruptly rescheduled by US consular offices, the Washington Post reported, citing three…

Washington, DC: In what will bring some relief to those seeking to apply for H1B visas in the US, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday (local time) has clarified that the USD 100,000 H1B visa fee will not apply to…

New Delhi: Former Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin has criticised the US's steep H-1B visa fee hike as a "tax on trust", warning that it undermines the mutual benefits of the programme and risks eroding…

New York: Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) America, Dhruva Jaishankar, on Tuesday (local time) said that both Indian and US-based companies have expressed concern over the sufficient availability of skilled…

New-Delhi: In a major development, the doctors and medical residents could be exempted from the Trump's $100,000 (Rs 88 lakh) fee on high-skilled H-1B visa applications. In a statement to Bloomberg News, White House spokesperson Taylor…

San Francisco: Former X (earlier Twitter) executive Esther Crawford has hit back at anti-immigrant rhetoric on X, saying the platform itself survived because of H-1B engineers, many from India and China, who worked tirelessly during the…

Washington, DC: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarified that the USD 100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications will only apply to the new applicants and not to the petitions submitted prior to September 21. "This…

New Delhi: The government said on Saturday that the full implications of the US decision to impose a USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications are being studied by all concerned, including by Indian industry, and that the measure is…