U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Monday, April 7, 2014 that it received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year 2015 during the first week of the filing period, which ran from April 1, 2014 to April 7, 2014. USCIS also confirmed that it received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions under the advanced degree exemption. As the H-1B cap is now officially oversubscribed, USCIS will no longer accept H-1B cap petitions for fiscal year 2015.