All you need to know about US visa

According to Overseas Healthcare Staffing Association of India, US would need nearly 1 mn nurses and over 24,000 doctors by 2020.

An internal report of the US immigration services has found forged documents and fake degrees, and even ���shell��� companies giving addresses of fake locations to obtain the permit.

US immigration authorities have sought a number of rule changes for hiring temporary workers under the H-2B visa programme.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a series of proposed rule changes that will streamline procedures for hiring workers.

US Inc is demanding that highly skilled workers on non-immigrant H-1 B visas be given employment-based immigrant visas or green cards.

The top court ruled that someone who is in the US illegally may under some circumstances continue to try to get approval to remain in the US.

The United States that visitors from closely allied countries like Britain and Japan will soon have to register personal details online at least three days before they arrive.

The argument is based on the fact that in a market economy, if workers are indeed outstanding talents, they will be paid accordingly.

US authorities said they had received too many applications for a visa program for skilled workers for the coming year, meaning a random lottery will determine the winners.

H-1B visa applicants get five-day breather

In addition to the limit of 65,000 visas for H-1B workers, the first 20,000 H-1B workers who have a US master���s degree or are exempt from the cap.

The top H-1B users in 2007 were Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Cognizant, Microsoft, TCS, Patni, US Technology Resources, i-flex and Intel.

US has proposed a new rule probihiting employers from filing multiple applications for H-1B visa, widely sought by Indians, for same employee to ensure a fair distribution of available visas.