US rejects 60% of H1-B visa applications from India this fiscal

Work authorisation visa or H1-B visa rejection rate for India is likely to be at 60 percent, CNBC TV18 reported.

For the first time since the financial meltdown in 2008, the US government conducted a lottery selection process to award H-1B visas to Indian and other highly-skilled foreign workers.

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After being swamped with 124,000 applications in five days, but having only 85,000 visas to give, US Citizenship and Immigration Services ran two computer-generated lotteries to award the available visas. The cap for the H1-B visas filled within a week this year.

The rejection rate for H-1B visas last year was at 45 percent. Companies are now looking for alternatives to H-1B visas this year. Most IT companies have stepped up local hiring from campuses in the US.

Additionally, Nasscom has said that it will take up the matter with US Immigration & Citizenship Form Services (USCIS)