Some of the recent studies have said the waiting period for Indian IT professionals on H-1B visas is more than 70 years

After H-1B, EB-5 US immigrant visa, which is a employment-based fifth preference category visa, has reached the stage of inaccessibility to Indians with big pockets to spend, as they are set to breach the annual cap this year, suggest reports.

The company's H-1B petition on behalf of Anisetty was denied on the sole ground that the job offered to him did not qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation

Despite the restrictive policies under the Trump administration, this year saw a 5 percent increase in application numbers/submissions over the previous year.

According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), there were as many as 419,637 foreign nationals working in the US on H-1B visas as on October 5. Of these, 309,986 are Indians.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been slapped with a 43-page lawsuit accusing the immigration agency of issuing H-1B visas for a duration shorter than three years.