Saturday, April 05, 2008

Great news for people applying for H1-B under Masters quota!

Great news for people on OPT! OPT time has been extended to 29 months for people who fail to obtain H1-B this time. I already have friends who are wishing that their H1-B application gets rejected so that they can save money on taxes for 29 months!

Click here for more info
OR visit http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1207334008610.shtm

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Who got how many H1-Bs in 2007?

InformationWeek had a good article about how H1-Bs got allocated in 2007. Click here for the full article!

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001329&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

The following excel sheet pointed in the above article has the full list of companies. Interesting to see that Microsoft had only 3 new H1-B visas!

http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/1179/H-1B_Approvals_for_initial_benefits_by_employers_FY07.xls