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H-1B Cap Reached

kkalmykov@klaskolaw.com — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:21:06 +0000

USCIS announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year 2011. USCIS is notifying the public that yesterday, Jan. 26, 2011, was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in fiscal year 2011. Individuals interested in applying for the fiscal year 2012 cap may begin to submit their applications on April 1st for an October 1st start date.

USCIS Updates H-1B Cap Filing Numbers

kkalmykov@klaskolaw.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:29:40 +0000

USCIS has issued updated figures for the FY 2011 H-1B Cap. The Service reports that as of April 22, 2010 a total of 22,764 H-1B cap-subject petitions have been filed. 16,025 of these filings count towards the 65,000 general cap and 6,739 of the filings are for the Master’s cap which allots an extra 20,000 H-1B numbers for individuals with advanced degrees from U.S. institutions of higher education.

USCIS Officials Predicts H-1B Cap Will Be Reached Soon

rklasko@klaskolaw.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:24:04 +0000

My partner previously reported that H-1B numbers were likely to be used up between Christmas and New Year’s, and based on what I heard this week at a conference in New York, the cap is likely to be reached no later than that. It may, in fact, be reached sooner than Christmas, perhaps even in the next week.

I was speaking at a Continuing Legal Education course in New York sponsored by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and USCIS officials on another panel informed the audience that the pace of H-1B filings had increased significantly in the past two weeks – about 2000 petitions were received in the short week before Thanksgiving alone. While they did not reveal their “target” number of petitions to reach the H-1B cap, they only have, at most, 5000-6000 potential numbers available left, which means the cap will be hit very soon if that pace of filings does not decrease.