On December 2, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the statutory H-1B visa “cap” for fiscal year (FY) 2025.
The USCIS announcement states:
“We will send non-selection notices to registrants through their online accounts over the next few days. When we finish sending these non-selection notifications, the status for properly submitted registrations that we did not select for the FY 2025 H-1B numerical allocations will show:
· Not Selected: Not selected – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration.
We 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 FY 2025 H-1B cap. We will continue to accept and process petitions filed to:
· Extend the amount of time a current H-1B worker may remain in the United States;
· Change the terms of employment for current H-1B workers;
· Allow current H-1B workers to change employers; and
· Allow current H-1B workers to work concurrently in additional H-1B positions.”
No further selections for new H-1B petition filings will take place for FY 2025, and the next registration period for FY 2026 will take place sometime in Q1 2025.
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