Our colleagues in Epstein Becker Green’s Immigration Law Group recently published a special client alert: “USCIS Announces That the Congressionally Mandated H-1B Cap for Fiscal Year 2017 Has Been Reached.”

Following is an excerpt:

On April 7, 2016, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it had reached the Congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year 2017 (“FY17”). This announcement applies to both the general cap of 65,000 and the additional cap of 20,000 for those with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.

Read the full alert here.