FY 2013 H1B Visa Quota Update.
USCIS will begin accepting H-1B Visa applications on April 1, 2012 for a start date of October 1, 2012.
FY 2012 H1B Visa Quota Update.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Nov. 23, 2011 that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap of 65,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2012.
USCIS is notifying the public that Nov. 22, 2011, was the final receipt date for new H-1B specialty occupation petitions requesting an employment start date in FY 2012.
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 petitions requesting an employment start date in FY 2012 that arrive after Nov. 22, 2011.
We are now preparing new H-1B petitions for filing on April 1, 2012 for a “start work” date of October 1, 2012.
H-1B Quota / Cap Exemptions:
The following H-1B visa petitions are not subject to the annual quota:
- An amended H-1B petition.
- An H1B Renewal/Extension petition.
- An H1B Transfer petition.
- The employer is an institution of higher education (College or University).
- The employer is a nonprofit organization or entity related to or affiliated with an institution of higher education (Hospital affiliated with a University) and the Foreign National Beneficiary (Worker) is enrolled in the jointly managed program.
- The employer is a nonprofit research organization or a governmental research organization.
- The Foreign National Beneficiary (Worker) has been previously granted status as an H-1B visa nonimmigrant in the past 6 years and not left the U.S. for more than a year after attaining such status.