Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP: Blog » H-1B cap count http://blog.klaskolaw.com Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP is nationally renowned for providing creative solutions to many of the most complex issues in immigration law to multinational corporations, small businesses, hospitals, universities, research institutions and individual clients. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 USCIS Updates H-1B Cap Filing Numbers http://blog.klaskolaw.com/2010/04/29/uscis-updates-h-1b-cap-filing-numbers/ http://blog.klaskolaw.com/2010/04/29/uscis-updates-h-1b-cap-filing-numbers/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:29:40 +0000 kkalmykov@klaskolaw.com http://blog.klaskolaw.com/?p=570 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.

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]]> http://blog.klaskolaw.com/2010/04/29/uscis-updates-h-1b-cap-filing-numbers/feed/ 0 USCIS Officials Predicts H-1B Cap Will Be Reached Soon http://blog.klaskolaw.com/2009/12/03/uscis-officials-predicts-h-1b-cap-will-be-reached-soon/ http://blog.klaskolaw.com/2009/12/03/uscis-officials-predicts-h-1b-cap-will-be-reached-soon/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:24:04 +0000 rklasko@klaskolaw.com http://blog.klaskolaw.com/?p=400 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.

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