In the recent H-1B visa lottery, 483,927 applications were filed for only 85,000 available visas. This means that more than 80 percent of applicants wanting an H-1B visa, which allows internationals to work in the U.S., won’t get one. To reflect on this year’s H-1B lottery (which saw a 57…
Another H-1B lottery season has come to an end. This year, the number of applications far exceeded the 85,000 allotted H-1Bs, the visas international students typically need to work in the U.S. after graduation. This means that, yet again, numerous students who wanted H-1Bs won’t get them. However, all is…
To say the least, the Trump administration didn’t extend a warm welcome to international students at U.S. colleges and universities. Will the Biden administration be more welcoming? Will international students have a better chance of securing H-1B visas? Will they have an easier time landing jobs and internships with U.S.…
On June 22, President Trump signed an executive order temporarily freezing various work visas, including the highly coveted H-1B visas sought by international students looking to work in the U.S. after graduation. To better understand the executive order’s potential impact on the international student community, Vault again reached out to…
The bad news for international students looking to work in the U.S. after graduation is employers are clearly in the driver’s seat. When a job opening hits the Internet, employers are typically flooded with hundreds of resumes, giving them several strong candidates to choose from. The good news is international…
International students often feel like career fairs are a waste of time and money. The reason for such disappointment is that, historically, the majority of companies participating at these events don’t sponsor international students and therefore aren’t willing to speak with them. The good news is there are still several…
Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received 201,001 petitions from U.S. companies for H-1B visas this year, a 6 percent increase over the number it received last year and the first time in three years the number of petitions for the skilled guest worker…
On-campus recruiting at U.S. universities is typically slower this time of the year versus the fall. For international students, in particular, opportunities to interview with firms that sponsor might be scarce between now and graduation. So what’s a student to do? The answer is smart outreach. And to do that,…
This is the time of the year when employers start to get back to international students who weren’t selected in the H-1B visa lottery. This year, the U.S. government received 201,001 H-1B applications for a possible 85,000 visas. This means that, unfortunately, thousands of students across the U.S. will hear…
As if the job search climate hadn’t been tough enough for international students since President Trump enacted the “Buy American and Hire American” executive order in April 2017, now international students are forced to watch the hiring pace of the U.S. firms rapidly decrease due to the spread of Covid-19.…
