USCIS Receives 199,000 H-1B Cap Petitions and Completes Lottery Process (Blog Post)

On April 17, 2017, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it received 199,000 H-1B petitions to meet both the Master’s and regular H-1B quotas (or “caps”) for Fiscal Year 2018, which begins on October 1, 2017.  This means that USCIS received more than double the number of available H-1B petitions in the first week of filing, and that more than 20,000 of these petitions were filed under the Master’s cap.  However, the number of petitions decreased this year, down from more than 236,000 petitions filed for Fiscal Year 2017.

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