The USCIS has announces the H-1B cap has been reachedAs expected, the H-1B cap for fiscal year 2015 has been reached.
On Monday, The USCIS announced "it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U. S. advanced degree exemption."
The USCIS also said that it would continue to intake all the applications they have received between when the cap season started on 4/1/14 and today. After they have completed this initial intake they will begin the computer-generated random selection process to determine which applications will be counted toward the 65,000 visa cap.
Due to the high volume of the H-1B applications, the date for the random selection has not yet been announced.
On Wednesday, April 9 at 12:00 PM (CST), VISANOW will be hosting a Google Hangout on Air for HR professionals interested in H-1B alternatives.
You can watch this Hangout on Air via the link below or through this YouTube link.