Xie Law Immigration Newsletter – April 2018

  • H-1B Cap Reached

USCIS announced that the H-1B Cap for FY2019 has reached on April 6th.   For this year, USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions during the filing period.   We shall expect to receive the I-129 receipts for the cases selected by the H-1B “lottery”.

Below is the official announcement:

On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to select enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap and the U.S.