USCIS Has Started Accepting H1B Visa Applications

Now, it’s the time for cheers for the US Immigration aspirants. The US citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which is solely responsible for handling the visa and immigration application for the USA, have started accepting the H1B Visa applications for the next fiscal year from Wednesday.

An overall 65,000 applications are offered excluding 20,000 H1B visas for applicants of US masters’ or higher degree.

The H1B US Visa is the primary and official USA visa for work accessible to people from all over the world. The H1B visa offered to greatly skilled International Professionals and International Students from the entire world for giving the possibility to live and work in the United States. And it is the most required and hunted visa after US work visa. The most crucial benefit of the H1B Visa is that it is ‘dual intent’ visa which helps to apply for a Green Card.

The USCIS used to demand to bring an end date for receiving visa applications till 2009. Within limited days the whole H1B visas- around 65,000- got a kick out of by the thriving outsourcing firms.

In 2009, due to the slowdown fewer visa applications were filed and to meet the limit of 65,000 wanted to wait until December. Due to the reinforcement of outsourcing business, the limit is to be infringed in advance this year.

USCIS has not insisted any deadline for accepting H1B applications in 2010. A release from USCIS remarked: “Cases will be considered accepted on the date that it takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct fee; not the date that the petition is postmarked.”