{"id":1392,"date":"2022-03-03T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:33:24","slug":"us-reaches-cap-for-fy22-h-1b-petitions-starts-accepting-applications-for-fy23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/us-reaches-cap-for-fy22-h-1b-petitions-starts-accepting-applications-for-fy23\/","title":{"rendered":"US reaches cap for FY22 H-1B petitions, starts accepting applications for FY23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FY22 H-1B Petitions: A <strong>US federal agency <\/strong>said on Monday that it has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the Congressionally-mandated cap for the <strong>H-1B visa <\/strong>for the fiscal year 2022. This comes a day prior to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (<strong>USCIS<\/strong>) will officially begin accepting petitions for the fiscal year 2023 which will begin from <strong>1st October 2022 <\/strong>for the agency. The agency will accept applications from<strong> 1st March to 18th March 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to accept and process petitions that are otherwise exempt from the cap. Petitions filed for current <strong>H-1B workers <\/strong>who have been counted previously against the cap, who still hold their cap number, are absolved from the <strong>FY 2022 H-1B cap<\/strong>,&#8221; said the agency in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the USCIS needed to conduc<strong>t three visa lotteries<\/strong>. To meet the mandated cap of <strong>65,000<\/strong> regular visas and<strong> 20,000<\/strong> under the master&#8217;s cap. The earlier year as well, the agency had conducted two lotteries, which was a departure from the norm. Normally, the <strong>USCIS <\/strong>gets enough applications after the first round of selection is finished. In <strong>July 2021<\/strong>, the US <strong>immigration agency<\/strong> had conducted a second random of selections. As it hadn&#8217;t gotten an adequate number of applications after the <strong>first lottery<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>FY22 H-1B petitions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The USCIS follows an <strong>October to September year<\/strong>, and candidates chosen for FY2022 would be eligible to begin work from <strong>October 2022<\/strong>. In November, it said it would be conducting the third lottery to reach its target. Moreover, <strong>immigration attorneys<\/strong> attributed this to fewer employers going through with their applications. After being selected with employees continuing to <strong>work remotely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, the agency had said that it had gotten <strong>2,75,000 petitions<\/strong> for FY2021, around<strong> 67%<\/strong> of which were for Indian candidates. However, when the travel and business closures went into effect in April 2020. Because of the <strong>Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong>, several employers did not go through with their visa filings, said legal advisors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-right\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/is-it-legal-for-an-h1b-employee-to-be-the-beneficiary-of-multiple-lottery-registrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Is it legal for an H1B employee to be the beneficiary of multiple lottery registrations?<\/span><\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the l<strong>ast few years<\/strong>, Indian organizations have been reducing the proportion of workers they utilize on <strong>H-1B visas<\/strong>. Even as American tech companies have been increasing the number of individuals they bring into the country on these visas. An <strong>often-cited reason<\/strong> is the shortage of highly skilled tech talent in the country. Through the pandemic, the <strong>unemployment rates <\/strong>for technology jobs have stayed low. 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