On April 7, 2016, USCIS announced that it had received more H-1B petitions that the statutory annual limit for H-1B employer filings for Fiscal Year 2017.<\/p>\n
Federal law permits a maximum of 65,0000 first time H-1B petitions, and an additional 20,000 first time U.S. earned advanced degree holder H-1B petitions each fiscal year.\u00a0 Each federal fiscal year begins on October 1 and employers can file H-1B petitions 6 months in advance of that date which makes April 1 in recent years the target date for H-1B filings which have the following October 1 as the H-1B start date.<\/p>\n
USCIS will randomly select those petitions which are to be counted against the 65,000 and additional 20,000 H-1B annual cap.\u00a0 It will first complete an intake processing for all H-1B petitions which it received before the announcement date.\u00a0 USCIS will then randomly determine which U.S. earned advanced degree H-1B petitions will be counted for the (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On April 7, 2016, USCIS announced that it had received more H-1B petitions that the statutory annual limit for H-1B employer filings for Fiscal Year 2017. Federal law permits a maximum of 65,0000 first time H-1B petitions, and an additional…<\/span><\/p>\n