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USCIS Shuts Down H-1B Premium Processing
Eight months is the current processing time for an H-1B visa application. Time is money. As a result the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sold "premium processing" for H-1B visa applications, and many other visa applications. Premium...
What is an America First H-1B Visa?
"America First," says President Donald Trump at the drop of a hat. He promised America First in any respect, including his immigration policies. Changes to the H-1B visa program have not yet been announced. Currently, companies must vie for H-1B visas by playing a...
India Faces H-1B Changes under Trump
On a visit to India, Congressman Bob GoodLatte heads a delegation of eight US representatives regarding the ongoing concerns of H1-B visa holders. Indian IT companies fret the new Trump administration shaking up their industry. After the meeting with IT minister,...
H-1B Changes and Optimal Stopping Algorithms
What do Optimal Stopping Algorithms have to do with the current H-1B landscape? Nothing. But what if Trump changed the method used in awarding H-1B visas from a lottery system to one where the highest pay gets filled? Then, it has everything to do with Optimal...
Average H-1B Pay Points to Possible Trump Changes to Visa Program
H-1B pay varies greatly. At Work Visas, we've written about what the changes we think the Trump Administration may bring to the H-1B Visa program. So far, all of his executive action deals with predominantly Islamic nations. He may turn away from such actions in...
Top 5 Tips for Getting an H-1B Visa
The top 5 Tips for getting an H-1B are simple. It comes down to who you know and if they like you. 1. Get a STEM degree from a U.S. university It should comes as no surprise that STEM talent receives the vast majority of H-1B visas. According to the Office of...
Legal Code – Agile Development and Legal Practice
Not really sure how, but I started developing software with agile in my thirties. I'd manage my team early in the morning, then practice law all day. The first version of the app I made was pure junk. You really have to understand code and software and how to make...
Protect and Grow American Jobs Act Introduced in Congress
Changes will be coming to the immigration system in the United States, of that we can be certain. Rep. Issa introduced the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act on January 7, 2017. Donald Trump rode a wave of xenophoic energy all the way to the White House. The most...
Disney H-1B Lawsuit for Discrimination Against Americans
As Disney says, it's a small, small world. It turns out that after the entertainment and media giant replaced some of its IT staff with contract workers from India. Tata Consulting, Wipro, and a handful of other IT consulting companies comprise about half of all...
Putin Hacked US Elections & H-1Bs Can Stop Him
Breaking news good, well educated, new Americans! Turns out that Vladamir Putin personally oversaw the hacking of the Democrats which helped hand the election to his new pal, Donald J. Trump. This is the same Donald Trump that ran his campaign on claiming that...
What to Do if You Do Not Win the H-1B Lottery
Every year on the 1st of April the USA holds a lottery. Over 200,000 hopeful immigrants apply for an H-1B visa. These people have exceptional skills that the economy needs. Why for every 1 H-1B in the STEM fields, 2.6 other jobs are created. The downside to this...
Trump H-1B Hypocrisy Exposed in Current Wife
Donald Trumps current wife met him when she was on an H-1B visa. Well, actually, it appears that his wife entered the country legally, but worked illegally because she had the wrong visa to do the nude photo shoots in 1995. But Trump is not one for letting "facts"...
Startup visa uncertain without Congressional action
Rumors have been circulating about a new type of visa being concocted by the Department of Homeland Security and related to Startup Visas. As you know, most H-1B visas go to highly skilled foreign nationals for work in the STEM sector. Many of these individuals go...
Top 5 Reasons H-1B Visas are Denied
No one wants to be denied after working so hard. You're smart because you have at least a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math. You're highly skilled for a "specialty occupation," meaning you do something most people cannot do...
The Numbers Game H-1B or Green Card
Welcome to America--literally a nation built by the dreams of immigrants. You got a degree in computer science, engineering, math, or the sciences, but one problem: you were not blessed to be born in the United States. So, how do you stay in America to continue...
Lawsuit to End the H-1B Lottery?
A class action lawsuit filed is attacking the lottery method for selecting the H-1B visas awarded each year to foreign workers in specialty occupations. Tenrec, Inc., et al v. USCIS, U.S. Dist. Oregon, Case No. 3:16-cv-995. Highly skilled employees in computer...
Harvard Business Review on Hiring Overseas Data Scientists
High tech talent is in such high demand that the Harvard Business Review has published an article on how to hire data scientists from outside of the United States. The H-1B visa that we concentrate on is profiled. The article explains the lottery system, average...
Congress Backpedals on Restrictive H-1B Visa Bill
Congress must have realized the need for H-1B talent as it yanked the ironically named "Protect and Grow American Jobs Act" from committee. The Bill boosted the salary for H-1B employees from $60,000 to $100,000. This overlooks the law that requires employers to pay...
Top Three Websites for Researching Your Work Visa
So if you're reading this, you may have Googled websites about immigration. If so, this is for you. Here's the top three websites on immigration that we have found. We consider them aspirational for our new Work Visas Solutions development, and perhaps after ten...
unplugging stuff
In development, you have to stop sometimes and start over. We've done that two times now at Work Visas Solutions. We started with a fairly straight forward theme and coded on from there, then pivoted to a job board theme. Boy was that a mistake. It was not really a...
$20 Million Dollar H-1B Visa Scam Prosecuted
An Indian-American couple, Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, of Ashburn, Virginia has pleaded guilty to the charge of a $20 million dollar visa fraud. Be warned of that when getting your work visa. There are rip offs out there. Many people dream of coming to...
High-Skilled Immigrants Victims of Political Games
Recipients of the H-1B visa, or any visa for that matter, face political hurdles on their journey to becoming Americanized. Recently, a wave of protectionism has swept over America. Donald Trump's boarder wall idea springs to mind, or his tirade against Mexicans...
Work Visa Quiz
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India Dominates H-1B Visa Numbers
India dominates the H-1B visa classification. Compared to every other country in the world, it is not even close. India wins the lion's share of H-1B visas with China and Canada following distantly behind. The domination is so stark that review of a chart really...
United States Hikes H-1B Visa Fees in Protectionism Move
India and the United States are set to meet on August 30, 2016, to discuss proposed changes to visa fees charged for the H-1B visa application. India comprises roughly 67% of H-1B visas and 28% of L-1 visas. Effective February 2016, certain H-1b application fees...
Trump’s Secret Agenda for H-1B Visas
A secret agenda may be the cause of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recent suspension of Premium Processing for all H-1B applications. We wrote before on a possible change in H-1B visa policy to reflect President Trump's core message of...
USCIS Shuts Down H-1B Premium Processing
Eight months is the current processing time for an H-1B visa application. Time is money. As a result the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sold "premium processing" for H-1B visa applications, and many other visa applications. Premium...
What is an America First H-1B Visa?
"America First," says President Donald Trump at the drop of a hat. He promised America First in any respect, including his immigration policies. Changes to the H-1B visa program have not yet been announced. Currently, companies must vie for H-1B visas by playing a...
India Faces H-1B Changes under Trump
On a visit to India, Congressman Bob GoodLatte heads a delegation of eight US representatives regarding the ongoing concerns of H1-B visa holders. Indian IT companies fret the new Trump administration shaking up their industry. After the meeting with IT minister,...
H-1B Changes and Optimal Stopping Algorithms
What do Optimal Stopping Algorithms have to do with the current H-1B landscape? Nothing. But what if Trump changed the method used in awarding H-1B visas from a lottery system to one where the highest pay gets filled? Then, it has everything to do with Optimal...
Average H-1B Pay Points to Possible Trump Changes to Visa Program
H-1B pay varies greatly. At Work Visas, we've written about what the changes we think the Trump Administration may bring to the H-1B Visa program. So far, all of his executive action deals with predominantly Islamic nations. He may turn away from such actions in...
Top 5 Tips for Getting an H-1B Visa
The top 5 Tips for getting an H-1B are simple. It comes down to who you know and if they like you. 1. Get a STEM degree from a U.S. university It should comes as no surprise that STEM talent receives the vast majority of H-1B visas. According to the Office of...
Legal Code – Agile Development and Legal Practice
Not really sure how, but I started developing software with agile in my thirties. I'd manage my team early in the morning, then practice law all day. The first version of the app I made was pure junk. You really have to understand code and software and how to make...
Protect and Grow American Jobs Act Introduced in Congress
Changes will be coming to the immigration system in the United States, of that we can be certain. Rep. Issa introduced the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act on January 7, 2017. Donald Trump rode a wave of xenophoic energy all the way to the White House. The most...
Disney H-1B Lawsuit for Discrimination Against Americans
As Disney says, it's a small, small world. It turns out that after the entertainment and media giant replaced some of its IT staff with contract workers from India. Tata Consulting, Wipro, and a handful of other IT consulting companies comprise about half of all...
Putin Hacked US Elections & H-1Bs Can Stop Him
Breaking news good, well educated, new Americans! Turns out that Vladamir Putin personally oversaw the hacking of the Democrats which helped hand the election to his new pal, Donald J. Trump. This is the same Donald Trump that ran his campaign on claiming that...
What to Do if You Do Not Win the H-1B Lottery
Every year on the 1st of April the USA holds a lottery. Over 200,000 hopeful immigrants apply for an H-1B visa. These people have exceptional skills that the economy needs. Why for every 1 H-1B in the STEM fields, 2.6 other jobs are created. The downside to this...
Trump H-1B Hypocrisy Exposed in Current Wife
Donald Trumps current wife met him when she was on an H-1B visa. Well, actually, it appears that his wife entered the country legally, but worked illegally because she had the wrong visa to do the nude photo shoots in 1995. But Trump is not one for letting "facts"...
Startup visa uncertain without Congressional action
Rumors have been circulating about a new type of visa being concocted by the Department of Homeland Security and related to Startup Visas. As you know, most H-1B visas go to highly skilled foreign nationals for work in the STEM sector. Many of these individuals go...
Top 5 Reasons H-1B Visas are Denied
No one wants to be denied after working so hard. You're smart because you have at least a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math. You're highly skilled for a "specialty occupation," meaning you do something most people cannot do...
The Numbers Game H-1B or Green Card
Welcome to America--literally a nation built by the dreams of immigrants. You got a degree in computer science, engineering, math, or the sciences, but one problem: you were not blessed to be born in the United States. So, how do you stay in America to continue...
Lawsuit to End the H-1B Lottery?
A class action lawsuit filed is attacking the lottery method for selecting the H-1B visas awarded each year to foreign workers in specialty occupations. Tenrec, Inc., et al v. USCIS, U.S. Dist. Oregon, Case No. 3:16-cv-995. Highly skilled employees in computer...
Harvard Business Review on Hiring Overseas Data Scientists
High tech talent is in such high demand that the Harvard Business Review has published an article on how to hire data scientists from outside of the United States. The H-1B visa that we concentrate on is profiled. The article explains the lottery system, average...
Congress Backpedals on Restrictive H-1B Visa Bill
Congress must have realized the need for H-1B talent as it yanked the ironically named "Protect and Grow American Jobs Act" from committee. The Bill boosted the salary for H-1B employees from $60,000 to $100,000. This overlooks the law that requires employers to pay...
Top Three Websites for Researching Your Work Visa
So if you're reading this, you may have Googled websites about immigration. If so, this is for you. Here's the top three websites on immigration that we have found. We consider them aspirational for our new Work Visas Solutions development, and perhaps after ten...
unplugging stuff
In development, you have to stop sometimes and start over. We've done that two times now at Work Visas Solutions. We started with a fairly straight forward theme and coded on from there, then pivoted to a job board theme. Boy was that a mistake. It was not really a...
$20 Million Dollar H-1B Visa Scam Prosecuted
An Indian-American couple, Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, of Ashburn, Virginia has pleaded guilty to the charge of a $20 million dollar visa fraud. Be warned of that when getting your work visa. There are rip offs out there. Many people dream of coming to...
High-Skilled Immigrants Victims of Political Games
Recipients of the H-1B visa, or any visa for that matter, face political hurdles on their journey to becoming Americanized. Recently, a wave of protectionism has swept over America. Donald Trump's boarder wall idea springs to mind, or his tirade against Mexicans...
Work Visa Quiz
[WpProQuiz 1]
India Dominates H-1B Visa Numbers
India dominates the H-1B visa classification. Compared to every other country in the world, it is not even close. India wins the lion's share of H-1B visas with China and Canada following distantly behind. The domination is so stark that review of a chart really...
United States Hikes H-1B Visa Fees in Protectionism Move
India and the United States are set to meet on August 30, 2016, to discuss proposed changes to visa fees charged for the H-1B visa application. India comprises roughly 67% of H-1B visas and 28% of L-1 visas. Effective February 2016, certain H-1b application fees...