Washington. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has said that the US will conduct a second lottery for successful H-1B visa applicants. The decision will give a second chance to hundreds of Indian IT professionals who could not get H1B visas in the earlier selection. USCIS said it did not receive a sufficient number of Congress-approved H-1B visas during a computerized draw for H-1B visas held earlier this year. So the second draw was decided.
The H1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specific occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on this visa to hire thousands of people every year from countries like India and China. “We recently decided that we needed to select additional registrations to reach the fiscal year 2022 numerical allocation,” USCIS said in a statement. Will be able
