US administration announces plan to resume faster processing of some H-1B visas

US administration announces plan to resume faster processing of some H-1B visas
 
On Monday, The US administration announced that it is going to resume faster processing of H-1B work visas for highly skilled foreign professionals in categories exempt from the Congress-mandated limit, which is mostly for higher education and scientific research institutions. 
  
US companies are allowed to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialised fields, under the H1-B visa, which is a non-immigrant visa. 
 
For each fiscal year, the H1-B visa has an annual cap of 65,000 visas. Additionally, there is an annual Master’s cap of 20,000 petitions filed for beneficiaries with a US Master’s degree or higher.
 
The premium processing will resume for petitions that may be exempt from the cap if the H-1B petitioner is "an institution of higher education, a non-profit related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education; or a non-profit research or governmental research organisation," the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said.