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H-1B visa: New registration system will start in March
A new electronic registration system intended to streamline the expensive and cumbersome H-1B application process will be in place for the upcoming application season, with an earlier deadline, the federal government said Friday afternoon.
Instead of submitting a detailed and labor-intensive initial H-1B application for each foreign worker a company wants to hire, employers will instead submit registration documents requiring only basic information about the company and worker, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration said.
The registration period, for H-1B applications subject to the annual 85,000 cap on new visas, will run from March 1 through March 20, the agency said.
If enough registrations come in to trigger the H-1B lottery, the registrations will be selected by lottery, according to the agency.
“Only those with selected registrations will be eligible to file H-1B cap-subject petitions,” the agency said.
Under the previous system, employers would mail in lengthy applications, which typically cost thousands of dollars in preparation costs and filing fees, during a five-day window starting April 1.
Now, employers will pay $10 for each registration, and only pay application fees if their registration is selected in the lottery and they become eligible to apply.
(Score: 2) by i286NiNJA on Monday December 09 2019, @10:46PM
It's simple.
1) Our public k12 system is designed to produce an overabundance of low-skill workers. When these people graduate they will not be able to test into our best universities, making more room for the right ones.
2) Our Universities receive less public funding than in the past so now our best schools are too expensive for anyone except for the right ones.
3) The right ones are the children of the global cosmopolitan elite be they natural born American citizens or the children of wealthy Vietnamese land owners.