06/19/2015
USCIS completes H-1B cap lottery
USCIS announced that it received nearly 233,000 H-1B petitions for the FY2016 H-1B petition filing period. The agency completed the random selection process (lottery) on April 13, 2015 to select enough petitions to meet the cap. Unselected petitions will be returned with filing fees.
http://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-completes-h-1b-cap-random-selection-process-fy-2016
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7, 2015 that it has received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2016. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption…