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The tech industry has long pushed to expand the number H-1B visas granted by the government to bring skilled workers to the U.S. from India, China, Canada, Korea, the Philippines and other countries.
The H-1B is a foreign worker visa in the United States that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in so-called specialty occupations. The regulation and implementation of the visa program is carried out by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services within the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Companies employing 26 or more full-time employees were required to pay a fee of $1500. Companies employing 25 or fewer full-time employees were required to pay a fee of $750. Nonprofit research institutions applying for the uncapped H-1B continued to be exempt from this fee (this clause was present in ACWIA and AC21).
The latest list of the companies identified as H-1B-dependent_employers in their LCA filings can be obtained from the DoL "Disclosure data". In the data file, the column H-1B_DEPENDENT will have a Y or N value (Y = Employer is H-1B Dependent; N = Employer is not H-1B Dependent) indicating the status the company used in the filing.
Until recently, IBM’s Indian subsidiary (IBM India Private Limited) received a few thousand new or continuing H-1B visas annually. In 2023 however, the subsidiary received none. In 2023 however ...
Labor Condition Application. The Labor Condition Application (LCA) is an application filed by prospective employers on behalf of workers applying for work authorization for the non-immigrant statuses H-1B, H-1B1 (a variant of H-1B for people from Singapore and Chile) and E-3 (a variant of H-1B for workers from Australia).
Ethiopia: eVisa / Visa on arrival [163] up to 90 days Visa on arrival is obtainable only at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. [164] e-Visa holders must arrive via Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. e-Visa is available for 30 or 90 days. [165] Visitors are fingerprinted. [citation needed] No Fiji: Visa not required [166] 4 months [167 ...
Visa requirement to visit India Angola: Visa not required for 30 days e-Visa Barbados: Visa not required for 90 days e-Visa Bolivia: Visa on arrival for 90 days, charged at La Paz airport. Prior visa is free of cost at Bolivian embassy. e-Visa for 60 days Burundi: Visa on Arrival for 30 days e-Visa Cambodia: Visa on arrival for 30 days