Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it
has received enough H-1B visa petitions to reach the annual cap for
Fiscal Year 2014. In addition, USCIS received more than 20,000 H-1B visa
petitions filed on behalf of people who are exempt from the standard
cap under the advanced degree exemption. After today (April 5, 2013),
USCIS will not accept H-1B petitions that are subject to the FY 2014
annual cap or the FY 2014 advanced degree exemption.
USCIS notes that it will now use a computer-generated random selection
process for all cap-subject FY 2014 petitions received up to April 5,
2013. The federal agency is not yet able to state the exact day of the
random selection process. In addition, they are not yet providing the
total number of petitions received.
