Reuters first reported Wednesday that the Biden administration will facilitate visa renewals for Indian migrant workers when President Joe Biden meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ing.
A small number of workers from India and some from other countries will be able to renew their H-1B visas without first leaving the United States. Reuters reported. The program is being piloted and may be expanded to more immigrants in the coming years.
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“The trial will start with a small number of cases and will be expanded over the next one to two years,” a State Department spokesperson told Reuters.
The government allocates 65,000 H-1B visas to US businesses each year, valid for three years before renewal. He will also be able to issue 20,000 visas to workers without advanced degrees. The largest users of H-1B visas are tech companies, with 73% of the roughly 442,000 H-1B visa workers in the United States being Indian. (Related: Signal failure caused rail disaster that killed 275 and injured hundreds in India)
India has long expressed concern about the difficulty of obtaining work permits for its citizens in the United States, and talks with Modi, Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Brinken this week will bring up the topic. is.
