Good news from Americans to Indians..! Special offer on Visa..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
Good news from Americans to Indians..! Special offer on Visa..!?
In an announcement issued by the Department of US Citizenship and Immigration services (USCIS), USCIS said that premium processing has started in issuing work permits to certain categories of foreign students. Through this, F-1 visa students can now use this premium work permit process. Apart from the employees, there is an important concession to be made to the foreign students. Through this, F1 visa students requiring Optional Practical Training (OPT), and F1 visa STEM OPT students pending FORM I-765 can upgrade to premium processing for a work permit. For this, USCIS has provided the facility to fill out Form I-907 online. The new service will start from 6th march and will be provided to other segments from 3rd April.
Most of the foreign students who study in America are from china and India. More importantly, most of the students in the STEM category are from India. Premium processing for this new work permit will benefit indian students in a big way. STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics degree. Since the day when the American government led by Joe Biden came to power, various privileges have been given to foreigners in the united states, and the foreign people who were in tension during the trump regime have reached us. The country's government has been providing various visa relaxations as foreigners in the united states contribute more to the country's a trade and economic development than American citizens.
A few days ago, the US government is planning to re-introduce and approve the "domestic visa revalidation" program only for some H1B and L1 visa categories to benefit thousands of foreign workers.
The trial run of this program is scheduled to be done at the end of 2023. In the list of companies that have benefited the most from the H1B visas provided by the US government, amazon has received an additional 6,396 H1B visas in 2022 alone. amazon is followed by Infosys with 3,151 visas and tcs with 2,725 visas in the top 3 positions in the 2022 list. It was followed by cognizant with 2,521 visas, google with 1,562 visas, Meta with 1,546 visas, HCL America with 1,260 visas, and ibm with 1,239 visas.
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