The H-1B visa cap for the monetary yr 2024, starting October 1, has been reached and all successful applicants have been knowledgeable about it, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has mentioned. In a press release on March 27, the federal company mentioned it has acquired sufficient digital registrations throughout the preliminary interval to succeed in the fiscal yr 2024 H-1B numerical allocations (H-1B cap), together with the superior diploma exemption — the grasp’s cap.
“We have randomly selected from the registrations properly submitted to reach the cap and have notified all prospective petitioners with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration,” it mentioned.
H-1B cap-subject petitions for the monetary yr 2024, together with these petitions eligible for the superior diploma exemption, could also be filed with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) from April 1, 2023, if based mostly on a sound, chosen registration.
Only petitioners with chosen registrations could file H-1B cap-subject petitions for 2024 fiscal and solely for the beneficiary named within the relevant chosen registration discover, the USCIS mentioned.
The U.S. 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 U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore free commerce agreements. Unused visas on this group change into accessible for H-1B use for the following fiscal yr’s common H-1B cap.
