Final Count: 172,500 H-1B petitions submitted this year

USCIS announced today that the agency received about 172,500 H-1B petitions for FY 2015 including petitions filed for the advanced degree exemption.  This year only 65,000 H-1B visa numbers are available for applicants with a bachelor's degree and another 20,000 visa numbers for advanced degree holders.  A computer-generated random selection process was completed on 4/10/2014 to select the cases for further processing.