{"id":154,"date":"2014-04-10T18:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graylaw.com\/sandbox\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:21:06","slug":"uscis-reaches-fy-2015-h-1b-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/2014\/04\/10\/uscis-reaches-fy-2015-h-1b-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Reaches FY 2015 H-1B Cap!"},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption. WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 7 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 visas for fiscal year (FY) 2015. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the advanced degree exemption. USCIS received about 172,500 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUSCIS received about 172,500 H-1B petitions during the filing period which began April 1, including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption. On April 10, 2014, USCIS completed a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption. For cap-subject petitions not randomly selected, USCIS will reject and return the petition with filing fees, unless it is found to be a duplicate filing. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"