In fact, the Biden administration has given the green signal to start a pilot program for domestic renewal of H-1B visas. This program is only for Indian and Canadian citizens. Domestic Renewal Program will start from 29 January 2024.

Under this, Indian IT professionals and Canadian citizens working in America will benefit. This program is also for such companies whose H-1B employees want to go abroad for work. America has taken this decision several months after the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In June, when PM Modi went on a state visit to America, work was going on to make the renewal process of H-1B visa easier.

This program was formally announced at the time of PM Modi’s visit. Under this program, Indian IT and technology professionals and Canadian citizens working in America can renew their H-1B visa along with their work permit by staying there. Under this program, only a maximum of 20,000 people can get their visas renewed.

How will Indians benefit?

Indian-American community leader Ajay Jain Bhutoria has described this decision of the Biden government as ‘important’. Simplifying the renewal process of H-1B visa will benefit about 10 lakh people and a large number of them will be Indians. Lakhs of Indians are working in America. In 2022, the US government had issued H-1B to 4.42 lakh people. Of these, 73 percent were Indians.

How will the visa be renewed?

H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa. It allows American companies to hire foreign workers. Whenever a person works in an American company, he is issued an H-1B visa. Till now it used to be that if a person’s H-1B visa had expired, he had to return to his country again to get it renewed. But now you will not have to come home for the renewal process.

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There is big news for Indians living in America. President Joe Biden’s administration has changed the rules for making visas. According to a report, US President Joe Biden’s administration has announced an update to a policy manual for the purpose of calculating the age of an immigrant in certain situations under the Child Status Protection Act (CSAPA). Key’s.

This step may be small, but it is being seen as an important step to remove the problems of those people, whose age limit to obtain visa has passed. However, he came to the US legally as a child with his parents. A large number of them are Indians.

21 years of age to obtain permanent resident status

Applicants must be under 21 years of age to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the United States based on their parent’s approved application for a family-sponsored or employment-based visa. If the applicant turns 21 during the immigration process, i.e. if he/she exceeds the prescribed age, he/she is generally no longer entitled to reside with the parents on the basis of the application.

Rejected application can be filed again

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially made the policy change that we are looking for, said Deep Patel of Improvedream.org, who leads the nearly 200,000 people facing difficulties due to overage. Been requesting for a long time. USCIS will use the ‘filing chart’ dates to determine the age of the CSPA and previously denied applications can be refiled.

Age will be calculated from the dates of filing chart

The federal agency said that USCIC will use the ‘Dates of Filing Chart’ instead of the ‘Final Action Date Chart’ for the purpose of calculating the age of these immigrants for CSPA under the new guidelines. The US State Department’s Visa Bulletin is used to determine when a visa number will be available. There are two charts in the Visa Bulletin – ‘Dates of Filing Chart’ and ‘Final Action Date Chart’.

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