USCIS Reached the H-1B Visa Cap for FY2019

April 9th, 2018
Posted By
Heather Sivaraman

USCIS Reached the H-1B Visa Cap for FY2019


As of April 6, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reached the 65,000 visa H-1B petitions mandated by Congress for FY2019. USCIS also received enough H-1B petitions to meet the master's cap visa exemption of 20,000. All unselected petitions will be returned along with the filing fees for those petitions.

What Can I Do Now that the Cap has Been Reached?

USCIS is still accepting and processing petitions that are exempt from the cap in other ways.

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This information comes from a news release from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA Doc. No. 18040631).

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