According to recent reports, the administration of Vice President Joe Biden would make it simpler for citizens of India to settle and find employment in the United States. As part of a trial project, the State Department is planning to allow a select number of foreign employees on H-1B visas, including a limited number of Indians and other foreign workers, to renew their visas without having to leave the country. This announcement is scheduled to come as soon as Thursday.
According to a report by the news agency Reuters, a senior official from the United States said that the State Department has already been working extremely hard to find innovative methods to make adjustments to the situation. A knowledgeable individual on the subject said, “We all acknowledge that the mobility of our people is a huge asset to us.”
The spokesman for the State Department has refused to comment on the different categories of visas that would be eligible for the pilot programme’s debut at the current time. The spokeswoman for the organisation said that the pilot initiative will begin with a limited number of participants, with the goal of expanding it over the course of the following several years.
According to the article, the stages might be different in the future; however, they have not yet been finalised.
According to the source, the pilot project would cover certain employees who have L-1 visas. These visas are granted to individuals who are moving to the United States to work for their own companies.
Companies in the United States that are in need of talented employees from other countries may apply for one of the 65,000 available H-1B visas, while people with advanced degrees can apply for one of the 20,000 available visas. These visas have a validity period of three years, after which they must be renewed for another three years.
In the meantime, Indians remain the most active users of the H-1B programme, accounting for 73% of the almost 442,000 people who had an H-1B visa in the fiscal year 2022. Organisations located in India, such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, are among the organisations that use the most H-1B employees. Other companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Meta, are also among the top employers of H-1B workers.
Concerns were voiced by India about the difficulties that Indian citizens have been having in obtaining visas to reside in the United States. Because of the epidemic, the United States Visa Services has ceased practically all visa processing across the globe as of March 2020.
