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US President Joe Biden is doing every little thing he can to enhance the H-1B visa course of, ‘inexperienced card’ backlog and different points associated to the nation’s authorized immigration system, the White Home has mentioned.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables US firms to make use of overseas staff in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.

“One of many steps, if we have a look at the H-1B visa course of, we have now taken motion to enhance that and the method and backlog for lawful everlasting residents (inexperienced card) who’re eligible to turn into US residents,” White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed reporters at her each day information convention on Wednesday. She was responding to questions concerning the feeling amongst a bit of Indian Individuals that the president shouldn’t be placing as a lot effort on addressing the woes of authorized immigrants as he’s doing for unlawful immigrants.

Biden heads to the southern border with Mexico in Texas on Thursday.

“Simply final month, for instance, as part of our efforts to strengthen the integrity of our immigration system and scale back potential for fraud, the DHS printed a remaining rule regarding H-1B visa,” Jean-Pierre mentioned.

“So, the adjustments promote fairer and extra equitable outcomes and, so, we’ll proceed our work to enhance the system inside our authorities and that has actually been a precedence,” she mentioned and added that the administration takes that “very critically” and is continuous to do every little thing that it could possibly to enhance the visa course of.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) has introduced the launch of myUSCIS organisational accounts that can enable a number of folks inside an organisation, in addition to their authorized representatives, to collaborate on and put together H-1B registrations, H-1B petitions and any related Kind I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service.

A brand new organisational account is required to take part within the H-1B Digital Registration Course of beginning in March 2024, the USCIS mentioned.  “We’re working expeditiously to deal with any technical points that will come up for authorized representatives whose accounts migrated once they logged into their on-line account on or after February 14, 2024, together with impacts on circumstances aside from H-1B filings,” it mentioned.

The preliminary registration interval for FY 2025 H-1B cap will open at midday Jap on March 6, and run via midday Jap on March 22.

Throughout this era, potential petitioners and their representatives, if relevant, should use a USCIS on-line account to register every beneficiary electronically for the choice course of and pay the related registration charge for every beneficiary, its media alert mentioned.  Beginning with the FY 2025 preliminary registration interval, USCIS would require registrants to supply legitimate passport data or legitimate journey doc data for every beneficiary.

The passport or journey doc offered have to be the one the beneficiary, if or when overseas, intends to make use of to enter the US if issued an H-1B visa. Every beneficiary should solely be registered beneath one passport or journey doc.

“In March, we’ll launch on-line submitting of Kind I-129 and related Kind I-907 for non-cap H-1B petitions. On April 1, USCIS will start accepting on-line submitting for H-1B cap petitions and related Kinds I-907 for petitioners whose registrations have been chosen,” the federal company mentioned.

To assist information organisations and authorized representatives via the brand new course of, the USCIS had launched the Tech Talks classes in February 2024. Throughout these classes, people can ask questions concerning the organisational accounts and on-line submitting of Kind I-129 for H-1B petitions.

The USCIS encourages all people concerned within the H-1B registration and petition submitting course of to attend these classes. Further data and dates can be found on the Upcoming Nationwide Engagements web page, it mentioned. 

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