Two-thirds of H1-B visa applications this year are from Indians – By Ananya Bhattacharya (Quartz) / April 2 2020
US president Donald Trump’s protectionist stance has not stopped Indians from forming the bulk of the H-1B applicants yet again this year.
Over 67% of the total 275,000 electronic registrations for H-1B visas in fiscal year 2021 are from India, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on April 1. The authority will now pick 85,000 from this pool through a randomised lottery.
The numbers are in keeping with previous years wherein Indians and Chinese have been the largest beneficiaries of the H-1B.
This comes amid doubts over the future of immigrant workers and their families, and even as the wait for green card becomes painfully longer.
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