Tuesday, March 07, 2000 - INS Announces H-1B Numbers
INS has announced that, as of February 15, 2000, approximately 67,000 H-1B approvals were counted against the FY 2000 cap, and approximately 44,000 H-1B petitions were pending.INS does not know how many of the pending petitions will count against the cap.
(If all 44,000 are applied to the count, the count, as of Februrary 15, would be 111,000 out of the total of 115,000 H-1Bs available this fiscal year.)
No comment was made as to whether INS still believes that it over-allocated H-1B numbers in FY 1999 and, if so, whether it would attempt to apply that overage to the FY 2000 count.
