The H-1B visa cap for the monetary 12 months 2024, starting October 1, has been reached and all profitable candidates have been knowledgeable about it, the US Citizenship and Immigration Providers has stated.
In a press release on Monday, the federal company stated it has acquired sufficient digital registrations throughout the preliminary interval to succeed in the fiscal 12 months 2024 H-1B numerical allocations (H-1B cap), together with the superior diploma exemption — the grasp’s cap.
“We have now randomly chosen from the registrations correctly submitted to succeed in the cap and have notified all potential petitioners with chosen registrations that they’re eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named within the relevant chosen registration,” it stated.
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H-1B cap-subject petitions for the monetary 12 months 2024, together with these petitions eligible for the superior diploma exemption, could also be filed with the US Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) from April 1, 2023, if based mostly on a sound, chosen registration.
Solely petitioners with chosen registrations could file H-1B cap-subject petitions for 2024 fiscal and just for the beneficiary named within the relevant chosen registration discover, the USCIS stated.
The US Congress has set the present annual common cap for the H-1B class at 65,000.
Of this, 6,800 visas are put aside underneath the phrases of the laws implementing the US-Chile and U.S.-Singapore free commerce agreements. Unused visas on this group turn out to be obtainable for H-1B use for the subsequent fiscal 12 months’s common H-1B cap.