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USCIS gets 12,713 H-1B filings
Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee
New Delhi
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May 9
The proposed immigration reform Bills and the latest SKIL Bill in the US Senate may have raised expectations of the IT industry, but visa hopefuls are not leaving anything to chance. The rush for the H-1B visas continues with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receiving 12,713 H-1B applications as on April 24, this year.
As per the USCIS update for latest cap count for non-immigration worker visas for the new fiscal (which begins on October 1, ), of the total applications received, about 3,907 beneficiaries have been approved while 8806 applications are pending. While the H-1B cap is pegged at 58,200, another 6,800 are set aside for the H-1B1 program under terms of the US-Chile and US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
In the case of H-1B Advanced Degree Exemption category, USCIS has received 2358 filings and has approved 898 applications of them, so far. About 1460 filings are pending before the USCIS as on April 24.
The H-1B category, spans computer programmers, engineers, architects, accountants and doctors. Besides this, Congress has also created an exemption for 20,000 foreign nationals earning advanced degrees from US universities.
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