H1-B visa cap reached within 5 days

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The U.S. on Tuesday said it has reached the cap for the H-1B work visas for 2016 within the first five days for the third consecutive year and will now conduct a lottery system to allocate the visas highly popular among IT professionals from countries like India. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it has reached the congressionally-mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year 2016, besides receiving more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption. USCIS will now use the computer-generated process to randomly select the petitions needed to meet the caps of 65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption.


The agency will first randomly select petitions for 20,000 visas allocated to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.

All unselected advanced degree petitions will then become part of the random selection process for the 65,000 general limit. “Before running the lottery, USCIS will complete initial intake for all filings received during the filing period, which ended April 7. Due to the high number of petitions, USCIS is not yet able to announce the date it will conduct the random selection process,” it said.

US H1-B visa cap reached within 5 days - The Hindu

There were some self professed MEDHAVIs in this site were pontificating that US economy is dead, and some others were saying that NRI should return to India. What happened? Why this rush to emigrate?

I suppose the movement is in both direction, and is normal economic cycle. People move in search of opportunity.

 

[XLR8R]

I suppose the movement is in both direction, and is normal economic cycle.

No, Indians still migrate en masse to the US. Very few come back. The reasons are well-known to all.

 

[prasad1]

No, Indians still migrate en masse to the US. Very few come back. The reasons are well-known to all.

Sir,
You may be new to the site, there have been members here who have written obituary to USA. They have advised all NRI to return home to be safe and prosper.
I do not know of may people who returned back to India, but there have been many who have returned to India.

 

[XLR8R]

Sir, You may be new to the site, there have been members here who have written obituary to USA. They have advised all NRI to return home to be safe and prosper. I do not know of may people who returned back to India, but there have been many who have returned to India.

People my age (20s) still dream of migrating to the US. They go in droves for their education and try their hardest to get jobs there. They do not have any intention of returning to India because "everything is so bad here". I am talking about my experiences in Andhra, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. This attitude has not changed as long as I lived, and no one I know returned after going there. I have seen some of the older generation people wanting to come back, but it's just not true for my generation.