01 August,2018 11:36 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services yesterday said that it has returned all the petitions of H1-B visas, popular among Indian IT professionals, that were not selected in the computer-generated lottery system in April.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services said that it has returned all the unselected H-1B petitions for the fiscal year 2019, beginning October 1, which were submitted to the agency in April.
The mandated cap of 65,000 H-1B visas and another 20,000 in the advanced degree categories were reached within the first five days after the USCIS started accepting applications. As an H-1B non-immigrant, the applicant may be admitted for a period of three years.
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