H-1B visa: The notification by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday came a day after the Biden administration announced that it will continue with the traditional lottery system to issue the much soug
H-1B visa allocation: The newly-elected Joe Biden administration has postponed the date of implementation of the proposed H-1B visa policy until December 31, giving the US immigration agency more time to develop, test and imp
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
The H-1B visa is designed to allow US employers to recruit and employ foreign professionals in speciality occupations within the US while L-1 visas are available to employees of an international company with offices in both t
The Centre will continue to take up the issue of hike in visa fees for Indian software professionals working in the US at the highest level with that government, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
Disney World has been hit by two class action suits accusing it and two outsourcing firms of conspiring to replace workers with less costly foreign ones using US H-1B visas, mostly from India.
Terming the hike in visa fee as "discriminatory", industry body FICCI today said the move will have a negative impact on efforts made by India and the US to build stronger trade ties.
Almost all Indian IT companies would pay between USD 8,000 and USD 10,000 per H-1B visa from April 1, when the next annual H-1B visa filing session starts, thus making it quite unsustainable economically for them.
The US Congress on Thursday doubled a special fee on the H-1B and L-1 visas raising it to $4,000 on certain categories of H-1B visas and $4,500 on L-1 visas.
Infosys, TCS and Tech Mahindra fell after the US Congress doubled a special fee on the popular H-1B and L-1 visas raising it up to $4,500 to fund a 9/11 healthcare act and biometric tracking system that will hit Indian IT com
The US Congress has imposed a special fee of up to USD 4,500 on the H-1B and L-1 visas popular among Indian IT companies to fund a 9/11 healthcare act and biometric tracking system.
Seeking some political mileage for his White House run, Republican Ted Cruz has introduced a bill in the US Senate to make minimum salary of H-1B worker at USD 110,000 per annum...
The proposed 15,000 H-1B visa cut legislation introduced by two US senators will be counterproductive for the growth of the US technology industry, says Nasscom.
IT industry body Nasscom today said it is unlikely that any comprehensive immigration reforms will take place in the US in immediate future, but it does not mean that threats of such arbitrary actions are non-existent.
In the tech industry, there is a realisation that there is lack of talent within the US market and that there is lot of technology capability from India which they can leverage pravin rao, Infosys COO
Two US Senators have introduced a bipartisan legislation in the Senate seeking reform of H-1B visa programme and modify wage requirements while also calling for a sense of urgency...
Republican presidential hopeful and real estate tycoon Donald Trump today said he was not opposed to H-1B visas - popular with Indian IT professionals - and favours talented foreign students staying in the US after completing
Under Congressional-mandated existing laws, the United States every year grants 60,000 H-1B visas and another 20,000 to those foreign professionals who get higher degrees from a US university.
An advocacy group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has slammed US presidential aspirant Donald Trump for his proposed immigration policy which would make it tougher for US companies to hire people on H-1B visas, hug