Immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee recaps the H-1B cap counts with a few remarks she deems pertinent.<\/p>\n
On May 5, 2009, a day celebrated around the world as Cinco de Mayo, the USCIS kept counting H-1B petitions received as the H-1B cap was approached. “They continue to pour in,” says Ms. Banerjee, “As of May 4, 2009, somewhere in the neighborhood of 45,000 H-1B cap-subject petitions and about 20,000 petitions qualifying for the advanced degree cap exemption had been filed.” Meanwhile, USCIS continues to accept advanced degree petitions. Experience has shown that not all received petitions are approvable.<\/p>\n
Explains Ms Banerjee, “These numbers appear identical to the previous week, on April 27th, when the statement released by USCIS was exactly the same. But it is progress as compared to the 20th of April, when the number of USCIS-received H-1B cap-subject petitions was a thousand less, about 44,000, and the relevant number was a thousand (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee recaps the H-1B cap counts with a few remarks she deems pertinent. On May 5, 2009, a day celebrated around the world as Cinco de Mayo, the USCIS kept counting H-1B petitions received as the H-1B…<\/span><\/p>\n