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H-1B visa: US withdraws proposal to change selection criteria, lottery-based system to continue

H-1B visa: US withdraws proposal to change selection criteria, lottery-based system to continue

H-1B visa: US withdraws proposal to change selection criteria, lottery-based system to continue

 New Delhi: The United States has removed a standard that would have changed how the H-1B visa process is managed, the Economic Times detailed refering to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). A last rule with this impact will be distributed in the Federal Register on Wednesday (December 22).

Worth focusing on here is that the choice by the Department of Homeland Security came later the US District Court for the Northern District of California cleared the standard in September.

The previous Trump organization on January 8, 2021, distributed a guideline to end the H-1B visa lottery and supplant it with a framework that grants H-1B visas by most noteworthy to least compensation. At the point when organizations document more H-1B applications than the yearly furthest reaches of 85,000 (65,000 in addition to a 20,000-exclusion for advance degree holders from U.S. colleges) USCIS utilizes the lottery. It could be noticed that USCIS got in excess of 300,000 H-1B enrollments for FY 2022.

A few industry bodies and organizations had gone against the proposition.

The US Chamber of Commerce and others had additionally documented claims contrary to the proposed rule, which brought about the court decision, the monetary day by day referenced.

 The standard — Modification of Registration Requirement for Petitioners Seeking To File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions — was among the last not many to be gotten by the organization of previous US President Donald Trump.

It should produce results on March 9 this year.

The new rules would have affected the H-1B cycle for monetary year 2022, however was postponed.