On April 7, 2014, USCIS announced that it had received enough H-1B submissions
to reach the congressionally mandated statutory cap for fiscal year 2015.
USCIS also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions categorized as advanced
degree exempt. The federal agency will accept all filings received by
April 7, 2014; a computer-generated process will randomly select enough
petitions to meet the caps of 65,000 general category submissions and
20,000 advanced degree exemption submissions.
USCIS will continue to accept and process H-1B petitions filed on behalf
of current H-1B workers who have been counted against previous years’
caps. Petitions filed for the following will continue to be accepted and
processed: extension requests for the amount of time a current H-1B worker
may stay in the U.S.; requests to change the terms of employment for a
current H-1B worker; requests for an H-1B worker to change employers;
and requests to allow a current H-1B worker to work concurrently in a
second H-1B position.
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