On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap and the U.S. advanced degree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automationgrp.com\/immis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nUSCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions during the filing period, which began April 2, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. USCIS announced on April 6, that it had received enough H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 and the master\u2019s cap of 20,000. USCIS will reject and return all unselected petitions with their filing fees unless the petition is a prohibited multiple filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USCIS conducted the selection process for the master\u2019s cap first. All unselected master\u2019s cap petitions then became part of the random selection process for the 65,000 cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I have previously reported, USCIS generally selects 25,000 petitions for the master\u2019s cap and 75,000 for the regular cap knowing that a percentage will end up withdrawn or denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USCIS does not normally announce how many petitions were filed in each cap. In our office, over 80% of our filings were in the master\u2019s cap (AD or Advanced Degree). This time around USCIS has provided the cap count in each category: 95,885 were filed in the Advanced Degree cap and 94,213 were filed in the regular cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll be posting updates as we start receiving receipt notices in the mail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n