{"id":35385,"date":"2008-03-26T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T21:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/uncategorized\/most-recent-ins-approval-figures-1999-h-1b-cap-is-being-rapidly.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T21:35:41","slug":"most-recent-ins-approval-figures-1999-h-1b-cap-is-being-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"corporate","link":"https:\/\/corporate.findlaw.com\/law-library\/most-recent-ins-approval-figures-1999-h-1b-cap-is-being-rapidly.html","title":{"rendered":"Most Recent INS Approval Figures; 1999 H-1B Cap is Being Rapidly Reached"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") announced today that 80,983 new H-1B petitions have been approved as of February 28 of this year. As indicated in our most recent Cooley Alert<\/i> on this issue, the INS may approve no more than 115,000 new H-1B petitions during each of its fiscal years (dating from October 1 to September 30). The limit for the 1998 fiscal year was reached in early May of last year, with the result that the INS ceased to approve any new H-1B petitions until October 1.

Since the Department of Labor's ("DOL's") temporary computer problems have recently been remedied, the large number of H-1B petitions that were awaiting resolution of these problems will be filed in the very near future, making it almost certain that the 115,000 cap on new H-1B approvals for the 1999 fiscal year will be reached by mid-April or early May of this year. We have been informed that between 10,000 and 11,000 new H-1B petitions are being processed on a monthly basis at the INS Service Centers.<\/p>

In view of the high probability that the H-1B cap will be reached within the next two months, all employers who are considering hiring foreign specialty workers in H-1B status are urged to file their petitions for these persons as soon as possible. In particular, companies that currently employ persons in F-1 Practical Training status and plan to change the status of such persons to H-1B when their practical training periods draw near are advised to prepare and file their H-1B change of status applications without delay. A failure to do so may result in an interruption in the employee's employment if the expiration of the employee's practical training occurs after the H-1B cap has been reached, but before October 1, 1999.<\/p>

Please note that the 115,000 H-1B cap applies only to new petitions; extension applications and petitions for persons already in H-1B status who wish to change their employers are not included in the INS' count.<\/p>

All further developments with respect to the 115,000 H-1B cap will be closely monitored by the Cooley Godward LLP Immigration Practice Group.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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