USCIS Reaches FY 2016 H-1B Cap

Release Date: April 07, 2015
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2016. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption.

USCIS will use a computer-generated process, also known as the lottery, to randomly select the petitions needed to meet the caps of 65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption.

USCIS will first randomly select petitions for the advanced degree exemption. All unselected advanced degree petitions will become part of the random selection process for the 65,000 general limit. The agency will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings.

Before running the lottery, USCIS will complete initial intake for all filings received during the filing period, which ended April 7. Due to the high number of petitions, USCIS is not yet able to announce the date it will conduct the random selection process.

USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. Petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, will also not be counted toward the congressionally mandated FY 2016 H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:

Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;
Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;
Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and
Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position. U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in occupations that require highly specialized knowledge in fields such as science, engineering and computer programming.
We encourage H-1B applicants to subscribe to the H-1B Cap Season email updates located on the H-1B Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Cap Season Web page. For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit uscis.gov or follow us on Facebook (/uscis), Twitter (@uscis), YouTube (/uscis) and the USCIS blog The Beacon.

God bless everyone! May all of us got selected in the lottery!

天空的一点 发表于 2015-4-8 23:56
他知道和你让他知道是两种不同的意思，他知道，别人不说他懒得管，但是当别人让他知道的时候他就需要管了

Everybody in congress knows. Obola knows. Intel, Google, Walmart, FB, they all knows.

But?

Sen. Jeff Session wants to repeal Intel & etc.'s effort to bring up the H1b cap, coz there is ICC issue.

Many GOP Sen. & Rep. want to raise the cap.

But Union and their boss: Democrats, boycott that, they think H1b steal their job. So bills die in congress.

Obola only loves illegal immigrants and muslims. He hates all legal immigrants and general Americans (especially Asian & White Americans).

comeacross 发表于 2015-4-8 06:52
duplicate filing就死定了 不然multiple different employer 就牛逼了

目测三哥哥三姐姐都是这样说的，而且还很自然很自豪的说的，我觉得今年审查时必不可少的，ICC 先不管，一人多份申请的估计要查一查了。

等着吧。

PS： 刚看redbus上一个人的留言。不知道真假呢。

May be rumor or right still not confirm, one its confirm i’ll verify you guys.

If 200k+ application, then no lottery.
they will verify each and all application by hiring confidential private company.

Lets see!!!

no number of total

comeacross 发表于 2015-4-8 03:01
no number of total

It was April 10th, 2014 when USCIS release the 172,500 total number for H-1b cap petition.

god bless all of us !

hope god bless all中华同胞！
今天看到redbus上的印度哥哥姐姐们都file了4份。。他们真是一日不除，H1b都没有存在的意义了

bless所有同胞

sensenisapig 发表于 2015-4-8 05:56
hope god bless all中华同胞！
今天看到redbus上的印度哥哥姐姐们都file了4份。。他们真是一日不除，H1b都 ...

我也刚看了，真的是无语了，不过他们风险也很大的我觉得！大家加油，中华同胞加油！

xuquji1987 发表于 2015-4-8 06:38
我也刚看了，真的是无语了，不过他们风险也很大的我觉得！大家加油，中华同胞加油！

duplicate filing就死定了 不然multiple different employer 就牛逼了

xuquji1987 发表于 2015-4-8 06:57
目测三哥哥三姐姐都是这样说的，而且还很自然很自豪的说的，我觉得今年审查时必不可少的，ICC 先不管，一 ...

这倒是实话 肯定会细查每一份 都是CS的货 手上offer一堆 选择多多呀