H1B Visa 2014: Approximately around 124,000 petitions were received by the USCIS with in the first 5 days of April 2013, for the Fiscal Year 2014. The lottery process to select the 20,000 petitions to be further adjudicated under master’s category and the 65,000 petitions to be further adjudicated under general category (which included the remaining advanced degree category petitions not selected under master’s category) has been COMPLETE this Sunday, April 7th 2013.
As expected a computer-generate random selection process was used to select the sufficient number of petitions to be further processed.
Check the H1B 2014 USCIS Lottery Process followed by the USCIS for Fiscal Year 2014
What Next?
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Selected Petitions List sent to Processing Centers
The list of the selected petitions is sent to the appropriate service centers for further adjudication of the petitions. The service centers would then continue with the final processing on those petitions.
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Selected Petitions Receive Receipt Letter
In regards to all the petitions selected through the lottery process, the petitioners will receive a receipt notice, with the EAC Number, useful to track the status of your petition.
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USCIS returns unselected Petitions with Fee
The USCIS will return those petitions not selected in the lottery to the respective petitioners along with the fee. It is also important to know that the duplicate filings will be returned without the fee.
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Wait-listed Petitions
Some of the petitions would be marked “wait-listed” by the USCIS and those petitions were also selected under the lottery. These wait-list petitions may possibly replace petitions selected under the lottery for Fiscal Year 2014, but are subsequently denied, withdrawn, or otherwise found ineligible. USCIS will retain these petitions until a decision is made whether they will replace a previously selected petition
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Premium Processing
For those petitions applied under premium processing, USCIS will begin premium processing for H-1B cap cases on April 15, 2013.
H1BWiki Analysis
According to the statistics provided by the USCIS, we would assume about 65 percent of the candidates would hold a chance to get their petitions reviewed for further processing. About 35 percent of the petitions would be rejected for the Fiscal Year 2014.
in our office floor, 11 ppl applied for h1b this year.
5 ppl got their receipt nos. 6 ppl r still waiting.
Anyone’s got a confirmation on Yes from uscis..
finally got the receipt no yesterday (22nd April 2013) from VSC. I applied thru general qouta, regular processing. am working for Indian IT company. my case got approved on 8th April (next day of lottery). My friends are waiting to get their receipt nos.
does it mean that, you are in the initial review stage.
yes, as far as I know, the visas getting thru the lottery will be assigned to ‘Initial Review’ stage in the USCIS site. i am able to see it in their official website. 2 of my friends have got their receipt nos yest from CSC.
Congratulations Rajeev.. Mine is also general quota and regular processing. Still not heard anything. My friends have also not got any information.. Its so hard waiting. Best of luck to all the ppl who are still waiting for the confirmation.
I applied through regular processing and general quota and received my EAC number today, my lawyer called and said this meant I got through the lottery and am currently on the intial review stage. Good luck to you
Guys, can you please input what date did you hear whether or not your H1B was selected in lottery, and whether it was in Master’s quota, premium processing or regular? It would help create a log of dates and would help set expectations for those of us who haven’t heard at all yet! My case was masters quota and premium processing, but I haven’t heard anything at all!
all the cases selected by lottery are selected on 8th April (i.e on next day of lottery). if you have applied thru consultant or lawyer he wud get the mail immediately.
in case u apply thru employer, he will take 2 to 3 weeks to update u.
my case got selected thru lottery on 8th but cane to know thru employer only on 22nd.
Hi Rajeev,
Congratulations!! In my case its filed by my employer. But till today I have not heard from my employer about the status. Is there a way to check the status?
till u get yur receipt no, u cannot track yur petition.
uscis processes 2500 petitions per day. it takes 26 days for entire 65k petitions.
from 8th april, 26 days leads to May 13th.
all selected petitions will be known by May 13th.
US is lack of only IT professionals and doctors….they don’t need any other
Oh really? DO you have that statistics handy Sir/Mam/Else Do you think the world run only by IT professionals and Doctors? God Bless You !
when did he say who runs the world. He is right.. American economy needs people in IT and medical sector – mainly because either they have enough people for other sectors or that sector is not growing that first. For example manufacturing is one field where they do not need people as most of the manufacturing has moved to China and other eastern countries.
Has any one from Master’s but regular process received notification/email/mail after 9th? it’s been 5 days already…
Yes
General 65k cap chance of being selected always 62.5%
Received the receipt this morning from lawyer. PP under bachelor pool.
received today 12.30…Master..PP vermont center
i received my EAC no. yesterday morning..
Received the receipt today. Mine was premium processing, hence got the confirmation through email to my lawyer. Regular cases will be notified by post to lawyer office. Good luck to all the waiting guys.
So, is that it? Whoever received the receipt today, received and everyone else can expect the denied petition to be returned?
Got the receipt today!! Premium processing under masters quota
I got my EAC number
i received my receipt today
did you do premium processing??
Are you premium processing?
how the fuck is it possible to file twice for a person ?? Surely that is not a fair random picks of candidates …
Not it is not possible anymore. USCIS is going to reject the candidate if you file duplicate.
how and when would a person know that his H-1B application has not been selected in lottery ???
This is completely unfair for engineers and fair for software fucking idiots
yeah, we fuck guys like you
who the hell are you to say whats fair and unfair, this is America, it really doesn’t matter if you have a Phd or a Bachelor’s degree whether you work for Microsoft or a Desi consultancy, everyone should have equal opportunity
Do you hear yourself? Are you actually saying that a pHd grad and a Bachelors grad are on the same footing?
I agree that they both are human beings and deserve to be treated equally, but this isn’t a basic human rights issue. This is about career opportunities based on education, potential impact and economic value. So no, a pHd candidate is far far more deserving of the opportunity than a Masters, and a Masters is far far more deserving than a Bachelors candidate.
This system of having random companies applying for thousands of VISAS is broken. Anyway it hardly matters now, given that the lottery is already done, but I cannot imagine how you can assert that this is fair to people already settled in the U.S.
The number of jobs for a bachelor grads are much more than for PHD grads. The purpose of H1B is to fill the vacant jobs and not favouring any category of people. So by that logic bachelors should be given more preference.
Yes and this lottery isn’t for people looking for jobs. Its for people who ALREADY have them. So what does it matter if there are more jobs for bachelors than for pHds?
This is unfair to you if you have a master degree from top10 universities.
This is a competition bro…compete or die….dont bark. mf
So you are MF’s brother..
Any idea when the selected candidates will receive the receipt information
I have heard a few my friends get their reciept this morning
can u check whether is under premium or US masters quota? for 65k cap we r hoping to receive next week
Any idea when will the selected candidates will get the receipt information?
Just received my receipt!
have you seriously received the receipt?
Yes. My lawyer emailed it. It was under general cap, premium processing.
I think it might be premium or US masters quota. for 65k cap we r hoping to receive next week.
Did you file under premium processing?
Ok….that doesn’t bode well then. Did it come through the post?
for all the ones that did premium processing, you (either your attorney or the employer ) gets an email confirmation with unique EAC no, one of my friend got it today through her employer, i guess all the ones that did regular processing will have to wait at least two weeks or more
Premium Processing petitions are being notified with Receipt # on email mentioned in Petition form, usually their attorney’s email. Email clearly states Petitioner (Employer) and Beneficiary (employee)
Were you california or vermont?
Really want to know the answer to this question!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/introduce-company-level-cap-temporary-work-permits-h1-b/tF8QSBhJ
Please vote and help me promote the petition
I did my part to spread this.
What is the source of this article? USCIS has not released any alerts regarding H-1B since 4/5/13.
@Me, Here is the source of the article from USCIS:
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c91dea8c9eadd310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=a2dd6d26d17df110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD