This spring, when employers flood the U.S. government with petitions to hire H-1B visa workers, those companies likely will have a new convenience -- electronic notification from the Dept. of Homeland Security about whether those applications have been approved.

"We're getting away from snail mail and taking advantage of technology," said Chris Bentley, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration spokesman, the Dept. of Homeland Security agency that handles the approval process for H-1B visa petitions.

So, rather than employers waiting for weeks to know the status of their H-1B visa petitions, this year they'll likely be notified a lot sooner electronically by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, he said.

The new e-notification system that's being developed should be online by April, when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services begins accepting H-1B visa petitions for fiscal 2009, which starts on Oct. 1.

 

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I think for both the cases they will send e-notification, but for now since premium is supposed to be fast, they r getting it, i guess after premium is done we'll start getting it too.