Each year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issues 65,000 H-1B visas and 20,000 “master’s cap” visas. April 1, 2016, is the first day on which an H-1B petition may be filed for FY 2017, in anticipation of an October 1, 2016, start date. Last year, USCIS accepted 233,000 petitions in the first week; a lottery was conducted and more than 60 percent of all petitions were rejected. Employers need to be prepared to file H-1B petitions on April 1.
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