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H-1B Visa Filling Up Fast - Your Strategies & Options

By Cedric M. Shen

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/coming_to_america/item/h-1b_visa_filling_up_fast_-_your_strategies_options_20120425

The USCIS began accepting H-1B work visa petitions for the 2013 fiscal year on April 2, 2012. Every year, Congress allots 65,000 H-1B visas for qualified applicants with bachelor’s degrees (regular cap). An additional 20,000 are reserved for applicants with master degrees or higher (i.e.- MBA, JD, MD, etc.). Prior to the Great Recession in 2008, the 85,000 cap was reached very fast – sometimes within weeks or days of the start of the fiscal year. With the U.S. economy in decline since 2008, the cap began to take much longer to fill. For FY 2011, it took approximately nine months, whereas it took approximately seven months for FY 2012.

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