H-1B Petitions Hit Record High
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") announced on April 12, 2016 that it received more than 236,000 H-1B petitions for specialty occupation visas for foreign workers for Fiscal Year 2017. These petitions were received in the first five business days of April, breaking the record set last year for the highly popular visa. USCIS stated that it received approximately 3,000 more petitions this year than last year.