USCIS Accepting H-1B Applications for FY 2012

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Davis C. Bae

It is H-1B season again. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officially announced today that they are accepting H-1B applications for FY2012. U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields, such as scientists, engineers, or computer programmers.

Cases will be considered accepted on the date USCIS receives a properly filed petition for which the correct fee has been submitted; not the date that the petition is postmarked. Similar to last year, we do not expect the H-1B quota to be fully utilized until late 2011. However, employers should start looking to initiate cases for employees who might be subject to the quota in order to assure themselves a visa before the cap hits.
 

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2010 H-B Cap

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Davis C. Bae

This just in! As of December 8, 2009, approximately 61,500 H-1B cap-subject petitions had been filed. USCIS has approved sufficient H-1B petitions for aliens with advanced degrees to meet the exemption of 20,000 from the fiscal year 2010 cap. Any H-1B petitions filed on behalf of an alien with an advanced degree will now count toward the general H-1B cap of 65,000. USCIS will continue to accept both cap-subject petitions and advanced degree petitions until a sufficient number of H-1B petitions have been received to reach the statutory limits, taking into account the fact that some of these petitions may be denied, revoked, or withdrawn.

Look to this blog for ideas on how to find solutions to the H-1B cap being hit for fiscal Year 2010.

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