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For certain countries, the three-year extension period has been set to one-year extensions for various reasons. For example, during Melania Trump's time as a H-1B visa holder, she was limited to one-year increments, which was the maximum time allowed for H-1B visa for citizens of Slovenia. Melania Trump became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
Prior to this Act, there were 195,000 slots available under the annual H-1B cap. Nonprofit research institutions were exempt from the cap, and people who had been counted towards the cap already (such as if they were transferring jobs or extending a 3-year H-1B by another 3 years) could apply without being counted against the cap as long as they weren't going over their 6-year limit.
H-1B visas are for highly skilled immigrants typically working in tech, healthcare, engineering and finance
The H-1B1 visa (and associated H-1B1 status) is a variant of the H-1B visa in the United States for nationals of Singapore and Chile. The version for Singapore is called the H-1B1-Singapore and the version for Chile is called the H-1B1-Chile. These categories were introduced with the Singapore–United States Free Trade Agreement and Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement respectively ...
Last year, IBM received more than 2,400 total approvals for new and continuing H-1B visas, the 15th most of any company, according to data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
6.94% In 2016 the total number of suspected overstays in country was 280,559 with a corresponding rate of 1.91%. The top 10 nationalities by in-country B-1/B-2 visa overstay rate in 2022 were: [ 140 ]
Mr. Trump's personal Facebook and Instagram accounts were suspended following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, after the company said his posts incited violence.
The B-1 in lieu of H-3 has the same time limits on stay as usual B-1 visas, which is a maximum of 6 months per year, and therefore a maximum of 6 contiguous months. It may therefore not be usable for people on training programs of a longer duration. [10]