| H-1B
Beneficiary |
1)
the approved petition associated with a specialty worker admitted on
the basis of professional education, skills, and/or equivalent
experience (the H-1B subsection uses this definition); 2) a specialty
worker whose petition to work temporarily in the United States has been
approved by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. |
| H-1B
Petition |
An
application form used by employers seeking permission for an alien to
work temporarily in the United States. An H-1B petition must be
approved by the Immigration and Naturalization Service before an alien
specialty worker is authorized to begin or continue working in the
United States. This requirement is true regardless of whether the alien
is residing overseas or within the United States at the time of
application. After a petition is approved, an H-1B worker is said to be
a beneficiary. |
| H-1B
Visa |
Alien
in a Specialty Occupation. |
| H-1C
Visa |
Nurses
in health professional shortage areas. |
| H-2A
Visa |
Temporary
Worker Performing Agricultural Services Unavailable In the United
States (Petition filed on or After June 1, 1987). |
| H-2B
Visa
|
Temporary
Worker Performing Other Services Unavailable in the United States
(Petition filed on or After June 1, 1987). |
| H-3
Visa
|
Trainee. |
| H-4
Visa |
Spouse
or Child of Alien Classified H-1B,
H-1C, H-2A, H-2B, or H-3. |
| HA-501
|
Request
for Hearing by Administrative Law Judge. |
| Hemispheric
Ceilings |
Statutory
limits on immigration to the United States in effect from 1968 to
October 1978. Mandated by the Immigration and Nationality Act
Amendments of 1965, the ceiling on immigration from the Eastern
Hemisphere was set at 170,000, with a per-country limit of 20,000.
Immigration from the Western Hemisphere was held to 120,000, without a
per-country limit until January 1, 1977. The Western Hemisphere was
then made subject to a 20,000 per country limit. Effective October
1978, the separate hemisphere limits were abolished in favor of a
worldwide limit. |