Now that the new rules of travel ban has gone into effect in America, the US citizen Immigration Services (USCIS) has some good news for Indian IT firms, who were taken back, a little, by the slow processing of H1-B petitions of their employees.
After announcing that premium processing of H1-B would be suspended, the USCIS is again planning to take it up and re-initiate it as workloads permit. The agency in an official statement said, ‘We will resume the fast-processing procedure soon. Further information about it will be disclosed over the time.’
‘This move will help to process the long pending petitions, which we have currently been unable to process due to the high volume of incoming petitions and the significant surge in premium processing requests over the past few years; and prioritize adjudication of H1-B extension of status cases that are nearing the 240-day mark,’ added USCIS in the statement.
Similar to Tatkaal scheme in India, the H1-B procedure will be dealt quickly (in just 15 calendar days), if an applicant furnishes USD1225 for the same. Certainly, it’s a huge benefit for Technology companies that are expecting smoothening of rules for work visas.
However, the Donald Trump-led America administration has previously clarified that H1-B visas will be allotted only to high-salaried and high skilled employees.
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