The new information required by the Department of Labour is significant because before sponsoring a foreign worker for the H-1B visa, the company needs to get its labour application approved by it.
This provides for H-1B extensions beyond the 6-year limit.
"Removing H-4 Dependent Spouses From the Class of Aliens Eligible for Employment Authorisation," said the US department of homeland security's unified agenda in the federal register notification of its semi-annual regulatory agenda.
US visa expert Dr Arun Vakil explains how to apply for a US work visa.
Earlier, immigration regulations had set a more stringent standard on the maximum time in H or L status, whether as a worker or an employee.
'No Indian citizen should be humiliated by the US authorities.' 'And Shah Rukh Khan happens to be one of India's most well known citizens.'
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency which receives and determines the successful applications for H-1B visas, said yesterday that it received 199,000 H-1B applications for the 2018 fiscal year.
They were arrested for trying to sneak into Britain in a lorry near Hull earlier this month.
Indian IT firms - which have to incur an additional burden of about $400 million annually - have called it "discriminatory".
With Democrats having an upper hand in US Congress, the Donald Trump administration will find it difficult to come up with any future legislative changes with regard to visa regulations.
USCIS received over 2,36,000 H-1B petitions during the filing period, which began April 1, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption.
The changes if legalised would have a detrimental effect on the functioning of Indian tech companies in the US and also small and medium-sized contractual farms in the IT sector, which are mostly owned by Indian Americans.
This is not a new rule, but very few people know about it.
From May 26 onwards, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting applications for work visas from H-IB spouses, reports Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com.
The proposals aims to impose new restrictions to prevent abuse and misuse of H-1B visas, besides ending the provision of granting extension for those who already have a green card.
He is accused of multi-year visa fraud, involving forged and fraudulent documents to get visas such as H1B for over 200 foreign workers.
Applications for H-1B visas totalled a record 233,000 for fiscal 2016, according to figures released recently.
US H1-B visa cap reached within 5 days for 3rd straight year.
'We are only talking about 65,000 H1B visas a year, it is not going to go down drastically.' 'If the number reduces and when you spread that reduction across all the top IT services companies, the impact will be marginal.'
'USCIS has been making arbitrary rules for over eight years, it's our top priority to set things right.'
The ruling by a federal judge in Oregon means that there will be no change in the H-1B visa issuance process for the fiscal 2018 which begins on April 3.
All advanced degree petitions not selected then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 limit.
In addition, for those applying for certain L-1A and L-1B must submit an additional $4,500.
US' IT industry wants a cap on H!B visas.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Rajya Sabha that this is an issue of concern not just for the government and the Opposition, but the entire House and the nation shares this concern
The lawsuit has been filed by American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Also looks at setting up development and training centres in the US to tide over visa-related issues
As in the previous years, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services can issue a maximum of 65,000 H-1B visas, which is most popular among IT professionals and companies in IT services.
This move is expected to restrict movement of H-1B visa holders.
About 76,000 H-1B visas were issued to people in computer occupations in 2014.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services will determine from today the allocation of visas -- highly popular among IT professionals -- through computerised draw of lots.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month.
Under the EB-5 visa programme you can become a US citizen provided you invest $500,000 in an approved project and create targeted employment. But only 700 Indians can do so each year.
Extensions of H-1B visas have become even tougher, in particular if the employee has been on a bench for any part of their previous duration.
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