20,000 advanced degree exemption cap also hit.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the 65,000 H-1B cap for fiscal year 2016, the USCIS said Tuesday. The agency also said the 20,000 limit for H-1B petitions filed under the American advanced degree exemption has exceeded as well.
USCIS, which started receiving the petitions on April 1, will now use a lottery system to select the 65,000 visas under the general category and 20,000 under the advanced degree exemption.
According to the agency, it will select petitions under the advanced degree exemptions first and all candidates not selected in the category will be considered for lottery under general category.
Those who are unselected will get the filing fees back.
USCIS said due to “the high number of petitions,” it is “not yet able to announce” the lottery date.
This was the second successive year the congressionally mandated cap was reached in seven days. For 2014, the cap was reached in five days.
The USCIS press release also said that it would continue to accept and process petitions for extending “the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States,” “[change] the terms of employment for current H-1B workers,” “[allow] current H-1B workers to change employers,” and “[allow] current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.”
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We run out of H-1b visas each year is because Offshore Outsourcing companies stuff in an excess number of requests.
Offshore Outsourcing companies take a chance in the H-1b visa lottery, because if candidate A or B doesn’t make it into the lottery, H-1b candidate C will do just fine. Because they are all trainees anyway.
In U.S. public court documents, top execs and VPs admit the Outsourcing companies never look for Americans for STEM jobs in the United States.
In a recent survey, by pro-immigration lawyers, 1 in 6 h-1b using employers admit they won’t hire Americans and would only hire h-1b workers, that’s discrimination. Discrimination is about destroying competition for sake of a monopoly on jobs, based upon irrelevant traits.
Granting Outsourcing companies a Federal Government provided monopoly on indentured workers, is Anti-Capitalist. It damages our economy for many decades, as these companies use our Federal Government programs to relocate entire departments, overseas.