USCIS will begin accepting H-1B CAP petitions for fiscal year 2018 on April 1, 2017. Over the past several years, the number of first time H-1B applicants have exceeded the number of available visas and has required USCIS to use a lottery system to select applications.[1] This overflow in applications has resulted in numerous petitions being unselected each fiscal year. An employer may file H-1B CAP petition on behalf of any employee subject to the H-1B visa limitation. This includes any employee whose H-1B CAP petitions were unselected in previous fiscal years. However, employers...
