03/11/10
H1B Quota for This Year Exhausted
USCIS has announced that the H-1B Quota is now full for this fiscal year, ending September 30, 2010. Some employers and employees are exempt from this quota.
For those companies not exempt from the quota (and who are employing employees who are not exempt from the quota), the earliest USCIS will accept H1B petitions will be April 1, 2010 for employment beginning no earlier than October 1, 2010.
Call us for an analysis of whether there may be another way to obtain work authorization for your company's employees through a different visa classification, or through the filing of an employment based immigration case.