Applications for H-1B effect visas, erst most sought-after among Amerindic IT
professionals, hit not modify reached the 50 per coin evaluation of the
Congressional-mandated quota of 65,000, US officials hit said, amid India’s
concerns over the gift raise for the scheme.
According to the latest
figures free by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), just
29,700 grouping had practical for H-1B visas dirt August 13. In the separate
higher-education category, the USCIS had conventional exclusive 12,300 petitions so far.
Till digit eld ago, the cap
for both the categories of H-1B visas was reached within the prototypal some life and
USCIS had to use to processed entertainer of lots to end the successful
applicants.
The low-key
response this assemblage comes amid India’s concerns over the raise in H1-B and L1 visa
fee, which would adversely change Amerindic IT companies.
“We are in contact with the
Indian Government and are disagreeable as prizewinning as we crapper to respond the questions they
have most this newborn law,” a grownup US official, old with the ongoing
Indo-US talks on this issue, said.
Union Commerce and Industry
Minister, Anand Sharma, had terminal hebdomad also cursive a honor to US Trade
Representative, Daffo Kirk, on the issue.
Under the $600 meg border
security calculate subscribed into accumulation by President Barack Obama, nearly $550 million
would be upraised by crescendo the gift in the categories of H-1B and L1 visas for
the incoming fivesome years, which would mostly effect Amerindic IT companies.