We all knew it was about to be reached but as of late Wednesday November 23, 2011, USCIS has announced that the H-1B cap was reached a day earlier on November 22, 2011, and will reject any H-1B cap applications filed after that day for fiscal year 2012. This is very disappointing because the prior cap update was based on Friday's receipts (just 2 days before) that USCIS announced that there were approximately 3,200 H-1B visas available. While we predicted that the cap would probably be reached by the end of November, the 1,500+ filings per day is a very large volume.
Employees that need a cap-subject H-1B must wait to file their petition until April 1, 2012, for an employment start date of October 1, 2012, which is almost a year out.
Congress should act and increase the quota now!
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