USCIS typically
starts accepting applications for the next fiscal year starting from April 1st.
So, the start date for accepting H1B Visa 2015 petitions would be April 1st,
2014, which is a Tuesday.
The H1B Visa cap count stands as below:
§ Regular H1B Quota : 65,000
§ Masters H1B Quota : 20,000
§ It is to be noted that 6,800 visas
every year are set aside for Singapore and Chile Free trade agreement filings,
which is called as H1B1 program.
USCIS received
about 124,000 petitions for a total of 85,000 visas last year for FY 2014.
We can expect a good amount of the 39,000 applicants, who were not selected in
H1B 2014 lottery, to apply for this FY 2015 quota.
