ABCs OF H-1Bs (THIS IS PART VI OF AN VIII PART SERIES): CAP REACHED; DO I STILL HAVE A CHANCE OF GETTING AN H-1B VISA? By: Michael Phulwani, Esq., David H. Nachman, Esq. and Rabindra K. Singh, Esq. | Bergen County Employment Immigration Lawyers | Ridgewood Citizenship Law Firm

ABCs OF H-1Bs (THIS IS PART VI OF AN VIII PART SERIES): CAP REACHED; DO I STILL HAVE A CHANCE OF GETTING AN H-1B VISA? By: Michael Phulwani, Esq., David H. Nachman, Esq. and Rabindra K. Singh, Esq. | Bergen County Employment Immigration Lawyers | Ridgewood Citizenship Law Firm



On Monday, April 7, 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
("USCIS") announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B
petitions to reach the statutory cap, both regular and master's, for
fiscal year (FY) 2015. Because of the surge of petitions that were
filed, USCIS conducted a lottery (technically referred as "random
selection process") on April 10, 2014, to determine which petitions
received in the five-day submission period, the minimum time USCIS can
accept petitions, will actually be considered. USCIS will soon start
sending receipt notices for the petitions selected in the random
selection process.