FY2012 H-1B Cap has been Exhausted

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Vic Goel

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced that it received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the statutory cap for FY 2012 as of November 22, 2011.  USCIS also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption as of October 19, 2011.  USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY 2012 that are received after November 22, 2011. 
USCIS continues to accept cap-exempt petitions, DOD petitions and Chile/Singapore H-1B1 petitions requesting an employment start date in FY 2012.

About Vic Goel

Vic Goel is Managing Partner of Goel & Anderson. His practice includes strategic immigration planning to assist domestic and multinational corporations with recruitment and hiring of international professionals, highly skilled technicians, managers, executives, and students. Vic has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Immigration Law, and was awarded a Distinguished Peer Review Rating for legal ability and ethical standards from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. He has also been selected for inclusion in The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, a publication that identifies the preeminent lawyers in the field through annual peer recommendations. He can be contacted at vic.goel@goellaw.com.
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