US H-1B visa cap reached within seven days
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11:47 19/04/2016
For the fourth consecutive year, demand for H-1B foreign skilled worker visas has greatly exceeded the H-1B visa quota. There is now a lottery for the available visas. Having allowed H-1B visa...
H-1B visa cap reached near the beginning of April says US Immigration
12:10 15/04/2015
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS) has announced that the H-1B visa quota for the 2016 fiscal year (October 1 2015 – September 30, 2016) has been reached, inclusive of the 20,000 granted...
H-1B Annual Visa Quota to Open on 1 April 2015
18:48 25/02/2015
New H-1B visa applications will be accepted from April 1st, United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) have announced. With an annual quota of 85,000, employers wishing to bring in...
H-1B cap 'costs US 500,000 jobs a year'
16:21 28/03/2014
The cap on the number of H-1B visas is costing the US economy one new job every 43 seconds, according to a tech industry pressure group. According to Dr Matthew Slaughter of Compete America, 500,000...
2014 H-1B quota reached on April 5th 2013
18:33 11/04/2013
As workpermit.com predicted, demand for H-1B visas this year has been extremely strong. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received 124,000 applications for H-1B visas by 5th April...
US immigration lawyers warn that 14 H-1B cap may be reached in one week
9:12 12/03/2013
US immigration lawyers are warning that the entire year's quota of 65,000 H-1B 'specialty occupation' visas for the 2014 fiscal year may be allocated in a single week at the beginning of April 2013...
