2016 H-1B Cap Met, USCIS Will Conduct Lottery

*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************

Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 10, 2015

Contact
No contact information submitted.
Sidebar Content
No sidebar content submitted.
Summaries

Summary Sentence:

The 2016 H-1B cap has been met and USCIS will proceed in a lottery to determine who will receive an H-1B.

Full Summary:

No summary paragraph submitted.

According to the trend of past years, USCIS stopped accepting H-1B applications on April 7th and will now proceed using a lottery system to determine who will receive H-1Bs for FY 2016. While USCIS has not yet provided the number of applications that they received, last year USCIS received 87,500 additional applications over the 65,000 cap.

More information can be found in a press release from GreenBergTraurig here.

Additional Information

Groups

Office of International Education

Categories
No categories were selected.
Related Core Research Areas
No core research areas were selected.
Newsroom Topics
No newsroom topics were selected.
Keywords
graduate students, H-1B, H-1B cap, international, international students, Postdocs, work authorization
Status
  • Created By: Emily Dolezal
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Apr 10, 2015 - 4:00am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:17pm