On June 11, 2012, the SCIS received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the statutory cap for FY 2013. On June 7, 2012, USCIS also received more than 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption. According to the USCIS’ Website, the USCIS will reject petitions subject to the cap for H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY 2013 (normally October 1, 2012) that are received after June 11, 2012.
Nevertheless, USCIS will continue to accept petitions exempted from the cap and DOD cooperative research worker H-1B petitions and Chile/Singapore H-1B1 petitions requesting an employment start date in FY 2013.
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