H-1B cap petition

Time to Plan for H-1B Season

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B highly skilled non-immigrant petitions for fiscal year 2016 on April 1, adding that it expects to receive more petitions than there are visas available. The annual H-1B cap is 65,000, with an additional 20,000 visas reserved for workers with a master’s degree or higher from a U.S. college or university. In 2014, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received 172,500 H-1B...