H-1B visa cap for FY 2024 reached, profitable candidates knowledgeable: USCIS
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday stated that the H-1B visa cap for the monetary 12 months 2024, starting October 1, has been reached and all profitable candidates have been knowledgeable about it.
Washington,UPDATED: Mar 28, 2023 08:19 IST
By Press Trust of India: The H-1B visa cap for the monetary 12 months 2024, starting October 1, has been reached and all profitable candidates have been knowledgeable about it, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has stated.
In an announcement on Monday, the federal company stated it has acquired sufficient digital registrations through the preliminary interval to succeed in the fiscal 12 months 2024 H-1B numerical allocations (H-1B cap), together with the superior diploma exemption — the grasp’s cap.
“We have randomly selected from the registrations properly submitted to reach the cap and have notified all prospective petitioners with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration,” it stated.
H-1B cap-subject petitions for the monetary 12 months 2024, together with these petitions eligible for the superior diploma exemption, could also be filed with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) from April 1, 2023, if primarily based on a legitimate, chosen registration.
Only petitioners with chosen registrations might file H-1B cap-subject petitions for 2024 fiscal and just for the beneficiary named within the relevant chosen registration discover, the USCIS stated.
The US Congress has set the present annual common cap for the H-1B class at 65,000.
Of this, 6,800 visas are put aside beneath the phrases of the laws implementing the US-Chile and U.S.-Singapore free commerce agreements. Unused visas on this group grow to be obtainable for H-1B use for the subsequent fiscal 12 months’s common H-1B cap.
Posted By:
Manisha Pandey
Published On:
Mar 28, 2023
