News Update - February 28, 2009
By Alan Lee, Esq.†‡
CAP H-1B Estimates For Number OF Applications In 2009
In 2008, U.S.C.I.S. received 163,000 new H-1B petitions for the
approximate 85,000 openings. Charles Kuck, president of the American
Immigration Lawyers Association, recently estimated that employers
will probably file no more than 100,000 petitions for 2009.
Top H-1B users for 2008 have been identified as Infosys - 4559;
Wipro - 2678; Satyam - 1917; Tata - 1539; Microsoft - 1018; Google
- 248; and Lehman Brothers - 130. The first four are Indian firms.
As previously stated here, new H-1B applicants can expect to have
a better chance of selection in April 2009 than in recent years.
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