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April 8, 2008
H-1B Cap is Reached - Including Advanced Degree Cap
On April 8, 2008 and to no one’s surprise, the USCIS announced that it has received enough H-1B petitions to meet the cap for fiscal year 2009.
USCIS also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries under the “advanced degree” exemption. Before it runs the random selection process, the USCIS will first complete initial data entry for all the filings it received but it has not announced the date on which it will conduct that random selection process.
It will conduct the selection process for “advanced degree” exemption petitions first and any “advanced degree” petition that is not selected will get another shot at approval by then being included in the random selection process for the 65,000 limit.
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