{"395271":{"#nid":"395271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2016 H-1B Cap Met, USCIS Will Conduct Lottery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the trend of past years, USCIS stopped accepting H-1B applications on April 7th and will now proceed using a lottery system to determine who will receive H-1Bs for FY 2016. While USCIS has not yet provided the number of applications that they received, last year USCIS received 87,500 additional applications over the 65,000 cap.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore information can be found in a press release from GreenBergTraurig \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com\/uscis\/as-expected-2016-h-1b-cap-met-uscis-to-conduct-lottery\/?utm_source=Greenberg+Traurig%2C+LLP+-+Inside+Business+Immigration\u0026amp;utm_campaign=f28fb6b537-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_term=0_6c774bc34a-f28fb6b537-70670701\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The 2016 H-1B cap has been met and USCIS will proceed in a lottery to determine who will receive an H-1B."}],"uid":"27787","created_gmt":"2015-04-10 08:00:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:58","author":"Emily Dolezal","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"63721","name":"H-1B"},{"id":"118641","name":"H-1B cap"},{"id":"1802","name":"international"},{"id":"4374","name":"international students"},{"id":"69901","name":"Postdocs"},{"id":"63421","name":"work authorization"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}