H-1B Cap for FY11 Has Been Reached

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced last week that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory cap for fiscal year (FY) 2011. The final date on which USCIS accepted new H-1B case was January 26, 2011. Because USCIS received more petitions on January 26th than there are H-1B slots available, USCIS will apply a computer-generated random selection process to all cap-subject petitions that it received on January 26, 2011. USCIS will use this process to select petitions that it will accept. USCIS will reject all remaining cap-subject petitions not randomly selected and will return the petitions and filing fees.