The U.S. government’s new guidance for issuing H-1B visa, which allows technology firms to hire skilled overseas workers, may lead to increased litigation, immigration lawyers said.
Just ahead of opening the H-1B visa application window, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which oversees immigration into the U.S. and processes the applications, issued guidelines which said computer programmers need to prove that it is a specialised skill to be eligible.