{"id":15946,"date":"2018-04-12T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/?p=15946"},"modified":"2018-09-25T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:44:18","slug":"uscis-completes-the-h-1b-cap-random-selection-process-for-fy-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/uscis-completes-the-h-1b-cap-random-selection-process-for-fy-2019","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Completes the H-1B Cap Random Selection Process for FY 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap and the U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2019.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions (95,885 for Master&#8217;s Cap and 94,213 for Regular Cap) during the filing period, which began April 2, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. USCIS\u00a0announced\u00a0on April 6, that it had received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 and the master\u2019s cap of 20,000. USCIS will reject and return all unselected petitions with their filing fees unless the petition is a prohibited multiple filing.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS conducted the selection process for the master\u2019s cap first. All unselected master\u2019s cap petitions then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 cap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cite and refer to: https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/news\/alerts\/uscis-completes-h-1b-cap-random-selection-process-fy-2019<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/working-united-states\/temporary-workers\/h-1b-specialty-occupations-and-fashion-models\/h-1b-fiscal-year-fy-2019-cap-season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap and the U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2019. USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions (95,885 for Master&#8217;s Cap and 94,213 for Regular Cap) during the filing period, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,24],"tags":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946"}],"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=15946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15947,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions\/15947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossyanglaw.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}