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USCIS Alert: FY2016 H-1B Cap Has Been Reached

4/7/15 AILA Doc. No. 15040767. Business Immigration, H-1B & H-1B1 Specialty Occupation

USCIS alert that it has reached the H-1B cap for FY2016. Before running the lottery, USCIS will complete initial intake for all filings received during the filing period. Due to the high number of petitions, USCIS is not yet able to announce when it will conduct the random selection process.

USCIS will first randomly select petitions for the advanced degree exemption. All unselected advanced degree petitions will become part of the random selection process for the 65,000 general limit. The agency will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings.

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