USCIS Announces FY 2019 H-1B Cap Reached, Total Down Slightly

USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions during the first week of April. The cap has been reached every year for the past six years but the total is down from last year’s total of 199,000. The Service conducted its computer-generated random selection process on April 11th.  In line with its usual practice, USCIS conducted the master’s cap lottery first and unselected petitions became part of the regular cap lottery. USCIS will return all unselected petitions with their filing fees unless the returned petition is a prohibited multiple filing. In that case, the filing fees will not be returned. USCIS will also start the process of sending out receipts for accepted petitions.  Based on previous experience, receipts for cases which made the lottery selection may start to be received in approximately two to three weeks and the mailings will last for a few weeks due to the volume.  Since premium processing of this year’s cap cases was suspended,…

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