What are the requirements for applying for a U.S. work visa?

What are the conditions for applying for a U.S. work visa?

Generally speaking, the H-1B visa is for professionals with a bachelor’s degree or above to engage in professions in the United States. Set up for work. According to the Immigration Reform Act of 1990, the annual H-1B visa quota is 65,000. Applicants must meet the following two conditions before they can apply for an H-1B visa:

Including that the applicant’s job must require professionals; the applicant itself meets the professional conditions.

1. Professional requirements. Under immigration law, a profession refers to a job that can only be performed by professionals with at least a bachelor's degree. Professional positions must meet one of the following conditions:

The minimum requirement for this job is a bachelor's degree; the industry generally requires practitioners to have a bachelor's degree, or the job is extremely complex or unique, and only those with a professional degree To be competent; employers usually require practitioners to have a professional degree; a certain job is very complex and requires a bachelor's degree or above to have sufficient knowledge to perform the job.

2. Application procedures. The H-1B application is divided into two steps. First, the applicant's company should submit Form 9035 to the Department of Labor to prove that: the applicant's wages will not be lower than those of similar U.S. workers; that there are no strikes or other activities at the company at the time of the applicant's application; that the applicant's employment Conditions are the same as those for similar U.S. workers; the company has notified the union that the applicant's application has been reported to the Department of Labor or, if the company does not have a union, the matter will be announced internally.

Study abroad experts remind that once Form 9035 is approved, the applicant can apply to the Immigration Bureau through the company where he works. Generally speaking, it takes two weeks for Form 9035 and four weeks for the USCIS.

3. Extension, change of work unit and others. Teacher Zheng Jie from the American Department of Jinjilie Study Abroad Lanzhou Branch pointed out that the validity period of H-1B approval for the first time is three years. At the end of the three-year period, you can apply for an extension for another three years, from one to six years. During the period when an extension has been applied for but has not yet been approved, H-1 status can continue to work for 240 days.

Under the following circumstances, you need to apply for a new H-1B:

Switching to a new work unit; Although working in the original unit, but changing to a new job; Working conditions and salary have changed Major changes; merging a work unit with another company to form a new unit; transferring from one subsidiary of the original company to another. There is no need to apply for a new H-1B in the following situations: transfer from one department to another; change of name of the work unit; change of owner of the work unit; change of work location.

The above is the relevant introduction to the study and work visa in the United States. For students studying and working in the United States, this work visa is very important. I hope interested friends can learn about it.

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