Immigration News

USCIS Releases Preliminary Number of FY 2009 H-1B Cap Filings

April 10, 2008

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced a preliminary number of nearly 163,000 H-1B petitions received during the filing period ending on April 7, 2008. More than 31,200 of those petitions were for the advanced degree category. USCIS expects next week it will conduct the computer-generated random selection process, beginning with the selection of the 20,000 petitions under the advanced degree exemption. Those petitions not selected under the advanced degree category will join the random selection process for the cap-subject 65,000 limit.

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(4/28/2008)
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(4/14/2008)
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(4/10/2008)
USCIS Releases Preliminary Number of FY 2009 H-1B Cap Filings

(4/08/2008)
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(4/04/2008)
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(4/02/2008)
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(3/19/2008)
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(3/19/2008)
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(3/17/2008)
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(3/05/2008)
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(2/27/2008)
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(2/22/2008)
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(2/20/2008)
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(2/15/2008)
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(2/14/2008)
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(2/13/2008)
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(2/07/2008)
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(2/04/2008)
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