{"id":1794,"date":"2015-04-13T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/en\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-04-13T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:38:46","slug":"h-1b-count-is-in-for-fy2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/h-1b-count-is-in-for-fy2016\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B COUNT IS IN FOR FY2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)\u00a0announced on April 7, 2015<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that it has received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2016. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption, also known as the masters cap.<\/p>\n

USCIS received about nearly 233,000 H-1B petitions during the filing period, which began April 1, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. On April 13, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and the 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption. USCIS will reject and return all unselected petitions with their filing fees, unless the petition is found to be a duplicate filing.<\/p>\n

The agency conducted the selection process for the advanced degree exemption first. All unselected advanced degree petitions then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 limit.<\/p>\n

This means that only about 1\/3 of the petitions will be selected. We anticipate that 60% or more of the applications will be rejected, more so for the Bachelor\u2019s Degree quota than the Master\u2019s Degree.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0announced on March 12, 2015<\/span><\/a>, USCIS will begin premium processing for H-1B cap cases no later than May 11, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)\u00a0announced on April 7, 2015\u00a0that it has received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2016. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption, also known as the masters cap. USCIS received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}