Thread: USCIS Reaches FY 2011 H-1B Cap

USCIS Reaches FY 2011 H-1B Cap

Jan. 27, 2011

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011. USCIS is notifying the public that yesterday, Jan. 26, 2011, is the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in FY2011.

The final receipt date is the date on which USCIS determines that it has received enough cap-subject petitions to reach the limit of 65,000. Properly filed cases will be considered received on the date that USCIS physically receives the petition; not the date that the petition was postmarked. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY2011 that arrive after Jan. 26, 2011.

USCIS will apply a computer-generated random selection process to all petitions that are subject to the cap and were received on Jan. 26, 2011. USCIS will use this process to select petitions needed to meet the cap. USCIS will reject all remaining cap-subject petitions not randomly selected and will return the accompanying fee.

On Dec. 22, 2010, USCIS had also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the ‘advanced degree’ exemption. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap will not be counted towards the congressionally-mandated FY2011 H-1B cap. Accordingly, USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:

extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the U.S.;
change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;
allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and
allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.
U.S. businesses use the H-1B program to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields such as scientists, engineers, or computer programmers.

For more information on USCIS and its programs, visit www.uscis.gov.

Last updated:01/27/2011

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WTF crap is this. Each app should be looked at seperately and not based on a lottery draw. If we have 65k engineers all drawn and we only need 1k such a waste. Plus how do we know if the persons skills actually meet the requirements as many of these countries standards at best "crap".

This whole H-1B visa thing, the visa lottery, and so on need to go away and then have a new way of legal immigration established by what we really need.

I've traveled through many countries and many of these countries who have the majority of the visa's education standards are laughable. Nurses for instance being no better then an orderly and having no clue what a US Nurse is about. Change bed pans, linens, and sponge baths... the common Asian nurse courses. Look at the Philippines as an example, they have a huge nursing output industry that has a low graduate rate and of those graduates 9/10 fail US Nursing board exams and on average take 6 tries to pass only after they get US Nursing exam review sheets. Engineers in China and the middle east.... laughable as well. Yes, go build a bridge with a 25 year lifespan and a building with a 30 year life span. Computer programmers are needed? Since when? Last I saw the helpdesk industry in the US was flooded by programmers with 10+ years of experience applying for level 1 helpdesk positions because their jobs were outsourced overseas (just as many helpdesk jobs were). We have programmers in mass such as myself. Yet I couldn't find a job.