On April 7, 2015, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it reached the statutory cap of H-1B petitions for fiscal year (FY) 2016.
As predicted, the USCIS received a heavy demand for the current H-1B cap. Similar to the last two years (FY 2014 and 2015), the H-1B cap was reached within the first five days of April, triggering the H-1B lottery. Under the lottery, all H-1B filings received over the first five days are subject to a random lottery to determine which of these H-1B applications will be counted and included under the cap. Specifically, the USCIS holds two computer-generated random lotteries...
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