{"id":77364,"date":"2019-07-07T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=77364"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:58:45","slug":"us-reaches-h-1b-visa-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/us-reaches-h-1b-visa-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"US reaches H-1B visa cap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: In its recent announcement US reaches H-1B visa Cap for which year?<br> (a) 2018<br> (b) 2019<br> (c) 2020<br> (d) 2021<br>  Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The United States on 5th April, 2019, announced it had received enough petitions for H-1B visas for the congressionally mandated annual cap of 65,000 for 2020.<\/li><li>Indians have historically accounted for more than 70% of the total of 85,000 H-1B visas the US grants every year against applications by American employers for specialty occupations. <\/li><li>Some of them were those employed by Indian companies with US operations such as TCS and Infosys, but most were hired by American companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft.<\/li><li>President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBuy American, Hire American\u201d policy, rules have been introduced and changed to make it harder to qualify, costlier and less welcoming.<\/li><li>The new rule favoring foreigners with US degrees, which was announced in January, is expected to boost their numbers by an estimated 16%, or 5,340 workers. <\/li><li>US employers seeking to employ foreign workers with a US master\u2019s or higher degree will have a greater chance of selection in the H-1B lottery in years of excess demand for new H-1B visas.<\/li><li>Other changes include increased scrutiny of applications as a result the number of requests for more information has gone up, increasing the paperwork and attorney fees.<\/li><li>It is less attractive for foreigners hoping to stay on, the administration has decided to end work authorization, for instances, for spouses of H-1B visa-holders cleared for Green Card (permanent residency).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-reaches-h-1b-visa-cap-for-2020\/story-V36a8BLjJetfEFxGQLuBSM.html\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-reaches-h-1b-visa-cap-for-2020\/story-V36a8BLjJetfEFxGQLuBSM.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In its recent announcement US reaches H-1B visa Cap for which year? (a) 2018 (b) 2019 (c) 2020 (d) 2021 Answer: (c) Related facts: The United States on 5th April, 2019, announced it had received enough petitions for H-1B visas for the congressionally mandated annual cap of 65,000 for 2020. Indians have historically accounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":77365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-77364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}