H-1B visa cap hit in 5 days

Washington: The United States on Monday announced that it has received the sufficient number of applications for its much coveted H-1B work visas to meet the Congressional mandated cap of 65,000

 

On April 1, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had started accepting the applications for the allocation of visas  highly popular among IT professionals  for the fiscal year 2015 beginning October 1, 2014. This is the second consecutive year that the cap has been reached in the first five days. USCIS also said that it has received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the US advanced degree exemption. “Before running a random selection process, USCIS will complete initial intake for all filings received during the filing period which ended on April 7,” it said.