Indians have been recognized as the most generous recipients of this visa program, accounting for around 70% of all new visas awarded each year.
New Delhi reported that India Registration for the highly popular H-1B visa will begin on March 1 and will be accessible until March 18, 2022. Petitioners and representatives will be able to submit their registration online using USCIS’ H-1B registration system between March 1 and March 18, according to the USCIS news release.
H-1B visa registrations for FY2023 start March 1
“USCIS will assign each petition for the FY 2023 H-1B quota a confirmation code. This number is only used to monitor registrations; it is unusable when it comes to tracking the status of your case in Case Status Online, “It said.
“Potential H-1B cap-subject applicants or their agents must use a myUSCIS online account to register each recipient for the selection process digitally. They also need to pay the accompanying $10 H-1B registration fee for every registration filed on behalf of each recipient. Prospective petitioners who file for their registrations will utilize a “registrant” account. Starting at noon Eastern on February 21, registrants will be able to make new accounts, “the statement continued.
“Representatives can add customers to their accounts at any moment, but applicants and representatives must stay until March 1 to complete recipient information and pay the $10 registration cost. Interested petitioners or their agents would register several recipients in a single online session. They will be able to create, amend, and save draft registrations through their account before final payment and submission of each roll, “According to the press release.
Potential petitioners will be chosen in a random manner. If there are enough registrations by March 18, selection notices will be delivered to account owners through their myUSCIS online accounts by March 31.
The H-1B visa is categorized as a non-immigrant visa that permits US businesses to hire foreign employees in specialist jobs that require theoretical or technical knowledge. For example, technology businesses rely on it every year to recruit tens of hundreds of workers from nations such as India and China.
Every year, the United States awards 65,000 new H-1B visas, with an additional 20,000 allocated for US Master’s degrees recipients.
Indians have been among the most generous recipients of this visa program, accounting for around 70% of all new visas awarded each year.