Major Victory For H-1B Employers As USCIS Qualifies Market Research Analyst As Speciality Occupation

In a major victory for H-1B employers, a federal court has approved a settlement under which the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has agreed to qualify market research analyst as a speciality occupation for the purposes of determining H-1B visa application of a foreign professional. Based on its prior interpretation of the Occupational Outlook Handbook a Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics publication profiling hundreds of occupations in the US job market the USCIS was determining that market research analysts did not qualify as a “specialty occupation”.

Source: Top India News- News18.com