H-1B visa: US withdraws proposal to change selection criteria, lottery-based system to continue
The Trump management on January 8, 2021, posted a law to give up the H-1B visa lottery and update it with a machine that awards H-1B visas via way of means of maximum to lowest salary.
The United States has withdrawn a rule that might have modified how the H-1B visa technique is administered, the Economic Times said mentioning the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). A very last rule to this impact might be posted withinside the Federal Register on Wednesday (December 22).
Worth bringing up right here is that the choice via way of means of the Department of Homeland Security got here after the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the guideline of thumb in September.
The former Trump management on January 8, 2021, posted a law to give up the H-1B visa lottery and update it with a machine that awards H-1B visas via way of means of maximum to lowest salary. When organizations document greater H-1B packages than the once a year restrict of 85,000 (65,000 plus a 20,000-exemption for strengthen diploma holders from U.S. universities) USCIS makes use of the lottery. It can be mentioned that USCIS obtained greater than 300,000 H-1B registrations for FY 2022.
Several enterprise our bodies and organizations had adversarial the proposal.
The US Chamber of Commerce and others had additionally filed court cases towards the proposed rule, which resulted withinside the courtroom docket verdict, the monetary each day mentioned.
The rule — Modification of Registration Requirement for Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions — changed into some of the previous couple of to be introduced in via way of means of the management of former US President Donald Trump.
It changed into imagined to take impact on March nine this 12 months.
The new standards could have impacted the H-1B technique for monetary 12 months 2022, however changed into delayed.
