USCIS Announces H-1B Advanced Degree Cap Reached

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced this week that the H-1B Advanced Degree Cap has been met. According to their announcement, USCIS has received approximately 20,000 petitions counting toward the 20,000 master’s degree or higher cap exemption. Currently, 46,200 of the 65,000 available H-1B nonimmigrant petitions for the fiscal year have been received. Therefore, any advanced degree H-1B petitions will now be adjudicated under the remaining numbers for the H-1B cap.

The H-1B program allows employers to hire foreign workers who will be employed in a specialty occupation that requires theoretical or technical expertise, such as architects, scientists, engineers, accountants and computer programmers among others.

Sarah D. Monty is a partner and the lead immigration attorney for the immigration section at Monty & Ramirez LLP.

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