USCIS H-1B CAP 2010 Update
What a difference a year makes! Last year, employers submitted over 163,000 H-1B “cap-subject” H-1B petitions during the first week of April, forcing the USCIS to conduct a lottery to select 85,000 lucky winners. This year, the agency received only 63,000 petitions during the first two weeks of April, 43,000 for the general H-1B category, and 20,000 for persons with advanced degrees. What’s more, the general category increased less than 4,000 over the next six months.
Then suddenly, between the last week of September and December 21th, the USCIS received over 20,000 new H-1B petitions and the H-1B cap 2010 was reached.
The USCIS announced on December 22nd that the H-1B cap had been reached on December 21st. New cap-subject H-1B petitions should be received by the USCIS starting on April 1, 2010 for employment commencing on October 1, 2010.
The charts below tells the story in more detail.
| Date | H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions Received |
|---|---|
| December 21 | H-1B CAP 2010 REACHED |
| December 15 | 64,200 |
| December 11 | 62,900 |
| December 10 | 62,500 |
| December 8 | 61,500 |
| December 4 | 61,100 |
| November 27 | 58,900 |
| November 20 | 56,900 |
| November 13 | 55,600 |
| November 6 | 54,700 |
| October 30 | 53,800 |
| October 25 | 52,800 |
| September 25 | 46,700 |
| September 18 | 46,000 |
| August 28 | 45,100 |
| August 14 | 45,000 |
| August 7 | 44,900 |
| July 24 | 44,900 |
| July 10 | 44,900 |
| July 3 | 45,000 |
| June 26 | 44,800 |
| June 19 | 44,500 |
| June 12 | 44,400 |
| June 5 | 44,400 |
| May 26 | 45,700 |
| May 18 | 45,500 |
| May 11 | 45,000 |
| May 5 | 45,000 |
| April 27 | 45,000 |
| April 20 | 44,000 |
| April 17 | 43,000 |
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