{"id":2561,"date":"2019-04-12T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2019-04-12T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:11:11","slug":"uscis-cap-selection-reaches-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/uscis-cap-selection-reaches-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Completes FY 2020 H-1B Cap Selection Process and Reaches Master’s Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has completed the fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B Cap selection process and has reached the number for the U.S. advanced degree exemption, also known as the master’s cap.<\/p>\n

On April 10, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B regular cap and 20,000 master’s cap for FY 2020. USCIS received 201,011 total H-1B cap petitions during the filing period beginning on April 1. On April 5, USCIS announced that it had received enough petitions to meet the H-1B regular cap number of 65,000 for FY 2020.<\/p>\n

As mentioned previously, USCIS followed new H-1B cap regulations<\/a> for FY 2020. USCIS first conducted the selection process for H-1B cap-subject petitions submitted on behalf of all<\/em><\/strong> beneficiaries, including those that may have been eligible for the master’s cap. After this, USCIS then selected a number projected to reach the master’s cap from the remaining eligible petitions. Because the H-1B regular and master’s cap numbers have been met for FY 2020, USCIS will reject and return all unselected petitions with their filing fees (unless the petition is a prohibited multiple filing).<\/p>\n

USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are exempt from the H-1B cap. Examples of cap-exempt H-1B petitions include an extension of status for a current H-1B employee, an amendment to the terms of employment for current H-1B employers, and a change of employer for current H-1B employees.<\/p>\n

Please do not hesitate to let our office know if you have any questions regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has completed the fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B Cap selection process and has reached the number for the U.S. advanced degree exemption, also known as the master’s cap. On April 10, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17,14,8,9,11,38,10,41],"tags":[44,100,130,26,28],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}