Premium processing of H-1B visa was on the brink in April to handle vast rush of new petitions.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing yesterday, for the annual 20,000 additional petitions.
WASHINGTON: The US has resumed fast processing of H-1B work visas in all categories subject to Congress-mandated limit, five months after it was suspended for the short term to handle the vast rush of applications for the work visas popular among Indian IT professionals.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.
Premium processing of H-1B visa was suspended+ in April to handle huge rush of new petitions.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) resumed premium processing yesterday for all H-1B visa petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cap, a media release said.
The FY 2018 cap has been set at 65,000. Premium processing has also been resumed for the annual 20,000 additional petitions that are set aside to hire workers with a US higher educational degree, it said.
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