Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 1:56 pm

Breaking News – FY2010 H-1B Cap Reached (December 22, 2009)

December 22nd, 2009 | Category: H-1B,News

A few minutes ago USCIS announced that as of December 21, 2009, it has received sufficient petitions to reach the statutory cap for FY2010.  USCIS has also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption.

No New FY2010 Cap-Subject H-1B Filings Accepted

USCIS will reject all cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY2010 that are received after December 21, 2009.  For those petitions received on December 21, 2009, USCIS will apply a computer-generated random selection process.

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