Law360, New York ( March 13, 2015, 4:09 PM EDT) -- April 1, 2015, is the first day U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will accept H-1B cap-subject petitions for next year's allotment of visas for foreign national professionals in specialty occupations. Cap-subject H-1B visas become available each year on Oct. 1 — and filings with USCIS can be made no sooner than six months in advance. For the past two years, USCIS was required to conduct a random lottery for available H-1B visas. USCIS predicts another record year of H-1B cap filings this year, and expects that another random lottery will be conducted. Based on last year's record number of 172,500 H-1B cap cases filed, many predict that more than 200,000 H-1B cap cases will be filed this year....
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