US - H-1B Cap 25% Full for FY 2005
18 June 2004
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The quota on United States class H-1B work visas for the fiscal year 2005 has already been one-quarter filled.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has just provided an update on the H-1B cap for the 2005 fiscal year (FY 2005) on 11 June during the AILA annual conference.
As of the end of May 2004, already 16,100 (out of the quota of 65,000) H-1B applications have been approved against next year's cap.
To remind our clients, fiscal year 2005 only begins 1 October 2004. From 1 April 2004 US employers could make H-1B applications against the following year's quota. This high number of applications shows that the 25% of all available H-1B visas for next year have been issued.
