While many
regulations like increasing the H1B
wage to 130K USD, Pre-registration of petitions
and picking them by salary offered & qualification, increasing H1B cap,
etc. have been discussed extensively and either part of the current H1B bills
that are in process or Fall 2017 Regulatory agenda, none of these will be
implemented for the H1B 2019 season.
How many H-1B Visas are available for the FY-2019 Quota?
58,200
(65,000 minus 6,800 taken out for Chile and Singapore H-1Bs) H-1B Visas are
available per year in the Bachelor’s degrees quota.
20,000
H-1B Visas are available per year in the U.S. Master’s degrees quota.
