One June 5, 2015, USCIS announced that it had reopened its H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year 2015. USCIS now announces that it has received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year 2015. June 11, 2015 was the final receipt date for new H-2B worker petitions requesting an employment start date before October 1, 2015.
According to USCIS, “the final receipt date is the date when USCIS received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the statutory limit of 66,000 H-2B workers for FY 2015.”
USCIS will reject new H-2B petitions that request an employment start date before October 1, 2015; and were received after June 11, 2015.
