Visa categories, work authorisation and pay — written for Indian students and professionals, and traced to USCIS and the Department of Labor rather than forum folklore.
H-1B, F-1, OPT and the categories Indians actually use to work in the United States.
Read guides →What lets you legally work: EAD, CPT, STEM OPT and the rules around each.
Read guides →Finding work in the US as an international candidate, and who actually sponsors.
Read guides →Salaries, prevailing wage, payroll deductions and what reaches your account.
Read guides →Cap-gap bridges the gap between your OPT ending and H-1B employment starting. A 2025 DHS rule extended it from 1 October to 1 April — and most guidance online still describes the old window.
65,000 under the regular cap, plus 20,000 reserved for US master's holders — and selection is no longer a flat random draw. Here...
Work AuthorisationPre-completion and post-completion OPT draw on the same twelve months — the single most common misunderstanding. Here is what US...
Immigration guidance circulates through forums and consultancy blogs, where figures get copied, go stale and are never corrected. A wrong number here costs someone a filing window or a job offer. So we work the other way round.
Rules come from USCIS, the Department of Labor, the IRS and Study in the States — not from aggregators repeating each other.
Where an official page omits a figure, we say so in the text and point you at the source, instead of filling the gap with a number from somewhere else.
F-1 to H-1B, STEM OPT, cap-exempt employers and prevailing wage — the parts that actually decide an Indian candidate's path.
