Visa H1B 2012, c'est Aujourd'hui

[Mawoi]

Si vous avez la chance d'avoir trouver un patron qui vous sponsorise pour un visa H1b, rappellez lui que c'est aujourd'hui Vendredi 1er Avril 2011 que l'USCIS accepte les petitions pour 2012, le quota n'est que de 65,000.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") has announced that it will start accepting H-1B petitions subject to the 2012 cap on April 1, 2011. Cases will be considered accepted on the date USCIS receives a properly filed petition for which the correct fee has been submitted; not the date that the petition is postmarked.

U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Such workers include scientists, engineers, and computer programmers, among others.

The cap (the numerical limit on H-1B petitions) for 2012 is 65,000. The first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of individuals with U.S. master’s degrees or higher are exempt.

USCIS will monitor the number of H-1B petitions received and will notify the public of the date when the numerical limit of H-1B cap has been met. This date is know ad the final receipt date. If USCIS received more petitions than it can accept, it may on the final receipt date randomly select the number of petitions that will be considered for final inclusion within the cap.

In addition to petitions filed on behalf of people with U.S. master’s degrees for higher, certain other petitions are exempt from the congressionally mandated cap. Petitions for new H-1B employment are exempt from the annual cap if the beneficiaries will work at:

Institutions of higher education or related or affiliated nonprofit entities;

Nonprofit research organizations;

Governmental research organizations.

Petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries who will work in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands

are exempt frm the cap until December 31, 2014. Employers may continue to file petitions for theses cap-exempt H-1B categories for beneficiaries who will start work during fiscal year 2011 or 2012.

Petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap do not count towards the H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to petitions filed to:

Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;

Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;

Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and

Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.

H-1B petitioners should follow all statutory and regulatory requirements as they prepare petitions to avoid delays in processing an possible requests for evidence

[FrenchUSA]

est ce que cette annee la reprise des embauches des etrangers va redemarrer?...interessant de voir/savoir comment ca va evoluer cette annee!
car le quota des H1b de l'annee 2010 a ete atteint seulement en Fevrier 2011!