USCIS May Be Drastically Shortchanging Employers Tens of Thousands of H-1B Approvals

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My friend David Rubman has been quietly pursuing data for months to confirm what he has long suspected - that USCIS is actually issuing far fewer than 85,000 H-1B approvals each year (65,000 for the regular cap and 20,000 for the masters cap). How is this possible? Because USCIS calculates how many H-1B applications it will accept based on estimates of the number of cases it will deny. And they appear to be way off in their estimates. H-1B denial rates have soared over the last few years, but USCIS has not seen fit to take more H-1B applications to...

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