{"id":402425,"date":"2023-12-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402425"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"USCIS-reaches-fiscal-year-2024-H-1B-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/USCIS-reaches-fiscal-year-2024-H-1B-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS reaches fiscal year 2024 H-1B cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap, for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to a USCIS news release yesterday, it said it will send non-selection notices to registrants through their online accounts over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we finish sending these non-selection notifications, the status for properly submitted registrations that we did not select for the [fiscal year] 2024 H-1B numerical allocations will show: Not Selected: Not selected\u2014not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS said it will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. Petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted previously against the cap, and who still retain their cap number, are exempt from the fiscal year 2024 H-1B cap.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in additional H-1B positions.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. businesses use the\u202fH-1B program\u202fto employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. <em><strong>(USCIS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/e742b5ff6a67bbc6081f9f8cbb1a677e.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>USCIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402425","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}