Posted by: fortunefaded August 12, 2009
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bluebus,
do some thinking before you publicly display your inability to do a simple google search.
nagois,
I got this information from the USCIS site and that's only government count..even if the Master's Quota is full you can still apply for regular, where the cap is 65K. If I were you I would file H-1B right away. You don't know how competitive the filling with be next year (esp since everyone is singing that the recession is over) so why take the risk? Remember in previous years, the quota would be maxed out within a couple of days.
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do some thinking before you publicly display your inability to do a simple google search.
nagois,
I got this information from the USCIS site and that's only government count..even if the Master's Quota is full you can still apply for regular, where the cap is 65K. If I were you I would file H-1B right away. You don't know how competitive the filling with be next year (esp since everyone is singing that the recession is over) so why take the risk? Remember in previous years, the quota would be maxed out within a couple of days.
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As of August 7, 2009, approximately 44,900 H-1B
cap-subject petitions and approximately 20,000 petitions qualifying for
the advanced degree cap exemption had been filed. USCIS will continue
to accept both cap-subject petitions and advanced degree petitions
until a sufficient number of H-1B petitions have been received to reach
the statutory limits, taking into account the fact that some of these
petitions may be denied, revoked, or withdrawn.
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