{"id":15253,"date":"2014-04-10T00:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T00:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jinsongyanglaw.com\/?p=15253"},"modified":"2017-12-07T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:34:04","slug":"uscis-reaches-fy-2015-h-1b-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/uscis-reaches-fy-2015-h-1b-cap","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Reaches FY 2015 H-1B Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Release Date: April 10, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS received about 172,500 H-1B petitions during the filing period which began April 1, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. On April 10, 2014, USCIS completed a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption. For cap-subject petitions not randomly selected, USCIS will reject and return the petition with filing fees, unless it is found to be a duplicate filing.<\/p>\n<p>The agency conducted the selection process for the advanced degree exemption first. All advanced degree petitions not selected then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 limit.<\/p>\n<p>On March 25, USCIS announced that they would begin premium processing for H-1B cap cases no later than April 28. For more information on premium processing for FY 2015 cap-subject petitions, see the related USCIS Alert.<\/p>\n<p>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 will not be counted towards the congressionally mandated FY 2015 H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;<\/li>\n<li>Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;<\/li>\n<li>Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and<\/li>\n<li>Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Release Date: April 10, 2014) WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15254,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}