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WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the congressionally mandated 65,000 visa H-1B cap for fiscal year 2018. USCIS has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, also known as the master\u2019s cap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The agency will reject and return filing fees for all unselected cap-subject petitions that are not duplicate filings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap.\u00a0 However, please keep in mind USCIS\u00a0suspended premium processing\u00a0on April 3 for up to six months for all H-1B petitions, including cap-exempt petitions. Petitions filed on behalf of current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, will also not be counted toward the congressionally mandated FY 2018 H-1B cap. USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in a second H-1B position.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n U.S. businesses use the\u00a0H-1B program\u00a0to employ foreign workers in occupations that require specialized knowledge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We encourage H-1B applicants to subscribe to the H-1B Cap Season email updates located on the\u00a0H-1B Fiscal Year 2018 Cap Season\u00a0Web page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit\u00a0www.uscis.gov\u00a0or follow us on Twitter (@uscis), YouTube (\/uscis), and Facebook(\/uscis).\u00a0(USCIS)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the congressionally mandated 65,000 visa H-1B cap…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[15999,1238,119,1589],"class_list":["post-249838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-cap-season-web","tag-immigration-services","tag-uscis","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}