Posts Tagged ‘Quota’

New Zealand computer error incorrectly approves hundreds for visa

May 22nd, 2012 Tushar Mathur

Hundreds of New Zealand visa applicants were accidentally approved for visas following a computer error last week. The Silver Fern Visa scheme is limited to 300 visas annually, but a computer glitch at Immigration New Zealand incorrectly accepted a further 330 visa applications after the quota had been filled.

“A technical fault occurred shortly after the Silver Fern opened which enabled people to submit applications after all the places had been filled,” said Rob Stevens, Immigration New Zealand’s service support general manager.

According to Stevens, roughly 4000 people were logged on to the website to apply for the visa; All the visas were used up less than half an hour after Immigration New Zealand started accepting applications.

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USCIS reports increase in H-1B visa applications compared to last year

April 26th, 2012 Tushar Mathur

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported a large increase in skilled foreign worker H-1B visa applications during the first week of this year’s application season. USCIS has received 25,600 petitions for H-1B visas since 2 April 2012, nearly twice as many as it received for the entire first month of last year’s application period.
USCIS officially began accepting H-1B applications last week for positions with a start date of 1 October 2012 or later. The visas are popular for those in IT occupations and engineering.

“Given the improved economy…it would not be surprising to see the quota filled very early this year,” said Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a group that studies the H-1B program.

There are a total of 85,000 new H-1B visas made available each government fiscal year.

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Steps to get a Green Card for Indians in US

April 12th, 2010 Tushar Mathur

This is a fact that India is still a developing country and US has been a developed country for a long time. So Indians in search of greener pastures migrate to US looking for better jobs and good standard of living. Most of them travel on visas that are non-immigrant and mostly get a HIB visa that gives a ticket to stay in US for at most 6 years. After giving services for these many years everyone wants to have a permanent citizenship of US and that is granted by the green card.

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H1B Work Visas for Indians

December 16th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

It can be said that the most popular visa among Indians is H1B which is a working visa for foreigners. Most of the Indians H1B visa holders are software engineers. Although it is a quite hard to get the H1B visa, once you obtain it, it is like the starting point for you to get the Green Card of US.

Compared to Indians programmers and software engineers who come with other visas such as L1 and B1, their visas is not so flexible for changing jobs, which is the best fact of H1 visa.

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The H 2B Visas Are Still Available

October 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

Did you know that under the following circumstances the H2B visa for the United States may be used for both Skilled and Unskilled work?

  1. An American employer, to handle the work load spikes of the peak months may choose to hire temporary staff. For that they can hire people using the option of the H2B visas.
  2. Also in case there is a one time occurrence situation for an employer in the United States, they may opt for the H2B visa.

The H2B visa is used for a number of works for the both the employers and the job seekers in the United States.

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