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The US Federal Court of Appeals – known as the Ninth Circuit – recently ruled that H1B visas can be issued to computer programmers after confirming ‘speciality status’. In 2017, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had revoked speciality status for computer programmers, which made them eligible for H1B visas.   The appellate court has now deemed the USCIS’ decision ‘random and unstable.’ The Federal Court of Appeals’ ruling comes following a case concerning Innova Solutions, which was seeking to hire Indian national, Dilip Dodda, as a Programmer Analyst,...

Yet another win for Indian H-1B holders as appeals court reverses USCIS decision for visa denial The judgement was against the visa denial issued by the USCIS in 2017 for an Indian H-1B petitioner for the firm Innova Solutions. December 20, 2020 / 09:43 AM IST Yet another day, yet another win for H-1B visa holders in the US. This time a US court pulled up the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for denying visa to an H-1B visa holder in a “capricious and arbitrary” manner. Well this isn’t the first time the USCIS has lost. This is in fact in a series of lawsui...

Updated Dec 20, 2020 | 14:12 IST A US appellate court referred to as ninth circuit, deemed as arbitrary and capricious a decision of the USCIS services in 2017 of not recognising computer programmers as “speciality” occupation for H-1b visa Good news for IT workers as US court rules H-1B ‘speciality’ visas may be granted to computer programmers  |  Photo Credit: PTI In a victory for Information Technology (IT) companies battling a 2017 US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision to rescind an order making computer programmers eligibl...