The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recycling 14,500 unused H-1B visas to employers after worried companies declined to accept the work visas they had won in the annual lottery. The redistributed visas will be used to hire foreign workers to fill the Fortune 500 jobs that will appear when the economy recovers.
In April of each year, companies enter an annual lottery for 85,000 H-1B visas. The lottery allows new H-1B workers to apply each October, joining a growing population of at least 600,000 resident H-1B workers.
However, in an August 14 Statement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) bureau declined to disclose the total number of H-1B visas that are being recycled from companies that no longer want the visas they won in the Spring.
The new welcome for H-1B and other visa workers is an apparent reversal from the current administration’s policies announced in June and early August. Companies can apply for the visas under “existing statutory and regulatory requirements”.
Also, the unused visas are being reallocated 81 days before the election, and two days after the Department of State posed some exemptions to the current administration’s June 22 Executive Order barring the entry of H-1B visa workers until the end of December 2020.
In addition to DHS’s second lottery of H-1 visas, officials from other agencies are opening the door to tens of thousands of excluded H-1Bs a few months before the election. The state department also noted that the number of H-1B “issuances” in 2020 had declined by roughly 60,000 for the March 1 to July 31 period, compared to 2019. However, DHS did not explain if the reduced number of “issuances” opened up H-1B jobs to Americans.
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