In bad news for U.S. employers seeking needed, high skilled foreign talent, USCIS announced on April 7, 2015 that it had enough H-1B petitions on hand to reach the annual advanced degree cap of 20,000 H-1B visa numbers, and the annual general cap of 65,000 H-1B visa numbers for the fiscal year beginning October 1.\u00a0 It will shortly conduct a random selection of those petitions on hand to determine which cases will be chosen for an October 1 start date.\u00a0 Making matters worse, delivery services mishandled numerous H-1B petition filings resulting in delayed delivery or damaged delivery of H-1B petition filings.\u00a0 USCIS issued guidance to affected employers on how to proceed only the day before, April 6, 2015, leaving little time for affected employers to act.<\/p>\n
USCIS will use a lottery to decide which cases it will select.\u00a0 It will reject and later return all cases not chosen, including filing fees.\u00a0 USCIS (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In bad news for U.S. employers seeking needed, high skilled foreign talent, USCIS announced on April 7, 2015 that it had enough H-1B petitions on hand to reach the annual advanced degree cap of 20,000 H-1B visa numbers, and the…<\/span><\/p>\n