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USCIS received 124,000 H1B Visa 2014 Petitions – Official Lottery Update Results

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As predicted by us earlier on USCIS official news update date, USCIS did an official press release today disclosing the details of overall petitions received and lottery process followed, including results. Below is a brief summary of the H1B Visa 2014 news release.

USCIS Official News : Summary of H1B Visa 2014 Lottery Results press release

  • Big News: For the first time in USCIS history since 2008, H1B Visas 2014 cap reached within the first week of filings, i.e, first week of April.  You can check out US Economy and H1B Visa Lottery
  • Total H1B Petitions received :  USCIS received a total of 124,000 H1B Visa petitions for fiscal year 2014.
  • Lottery Information : USCIS conducted a random computer generated random selection process, also called as lottery, on April 7th to select the petitions needed to meet the regular cap of 65,000 and masters cap of 20,000
  • Lottery Process followed: As described in our detail H1B Visa Lottery process, USCIS followed the same thing.  First USCIS conducted lottery process for Masters quota petitions and then the petitions not selected in masters lottery were merged with regular quota pool and random selection process was conducted for remaining pool to select 65,000 petitions.
  • Petitions Not Selected in Lottery  : If your petition was not selected in lottery, USCIS will reject and return the petition along with the filing fee, except for duplicate petitions.
  • Premium Processing for H1B Visa 2014 : To facilitate the data entry process and meet the timelines, USCIS will begin premium processing for H1B Visa 2014 from April 15th.
  • Non-Cap Subject Petitions Accepted :  USCIS will continue to accept non-cap subject petitions i.e, that have already been counted towards to the cap, including petitions filed under below category
    • H1B Visa stay extensions
    • Employee terms changes for H1B visa worker
    • H1B petitions filed for Change of employers
    • H1B petitions filed for concurrent working for more than one employer

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  2. ALL,
    I got my receipt 30 min ago. what a releif….
    i wish all the bst for all masters people…
    specially AD/VSC/PP hang in here GAME IS STILL ON….
    good luck everyone…..

  3. Masters degree, CSC, premium processing…still waiting and super tensed. Is anyone still getting receipts?

  4. ALL tensed guy please read carefully….
    i was one of you 30 mim. ago….
    all AD/PP/VSC people i got my receipt and got email from lawyer just 30 min a go i make it to the lottery and selected
    what a relief man…. aaahh god you are there ….
    i wish all the best to remaining people specially AD/PP/VSC that hang in there GAME IS STILL ON….. i know how much tensed we all are here…………….

  5. Any one got mail saying ! Your application petition not selected on pp ? I haven’t seen anything like that all are waiting !!!!!

    • As per my lawyer, they do not respond if you are not selected. they will return the package in next few days.

      good luck, i am sure you will get through it and you will get the receipt soon.

  7. I received my receipt number 2 hours back from my employer. It was filed under regular cap – premium processing (Vermont)
    Good luck to all of you who are waiting to get receipt!

  12. Hi,

    I have been following this website 10 times a day for last 1.5 months. Thank you all you guys sharing information, news and updates and some have given my heart attacks, laughs and know how of the whole process.

    I just got my reciept PP/Regular/CSC and I am estatic. I never thought I was going to get in, luck was not always my strong suit.

    But thank you everyone of you, guys who were fighting, sharing stats, admins, speculators, guys making random news up, it was fun!!

    God bless,
    Cheers

  13. Hello All,

    I just got my receipt number from my attorney. I’m on the Regular CAP, Premium Processing, Vermont.
    Date Received: 04/08/2013

    Please don’t loose hope. I almost started booking tickets back to India in Sept. I wish and pray everyone gets thru.

  15. When would AD/Regular processing results be out? end of next week maybe? Hard to concentrate on anything else!

  16. How are you guys know the time at which your petition was recieved by USCIS.
    I am still waiting for the result if my petition is selected or not

    • i looked at my fedex tracking #. but i don’t think it matters.

      my package was received on april 1st around 8am. but i havent heard any result. i know other people whose package received after april 1st and already heard their acceptance.

  17. Hi all,
    Just now got wac# from my attorney. Mine is general quota/pp/csc.
    Wishing best of luck for those waiting to hear.

  18. Guys Im..here if you guys have any questions or concerns please let me know..Im always here…

    Please do not loose hope.People with Advance Degree will for sure get it.

  19. How are you guys know the time at which your petition was recieved by USCIS.

    I am still waiting for the result – if my petition is selected or not

  23. An end less wait,
    A smirk from my fate,
    Trying to convince me H1B or no H1B,
    I am still destined to be great.

    But I still refresh this site,
    I keep reading all the information and all the views,
    I know my fate is sealed I am just waiting for the news.

  24. This is Thursday 4/11 1 AM EDT, I just spoke to my employer. They filed 100 fresh PP H1s, they got acknowledgement of 3 so far.

    If I go by probability and the count of applications received by USCIS, every one has 50% chance.
    This means that my employer is yet to get positive confirmation of some 47 more cases out of 100 filed.

    Hope you guys agree? This is my math to prove that who so ever has not got ack so far, they still have 47% chance.

  26. Just got mine!! Regular/PP/WAC…
    Big relief!
    Good luck to those waiting…am sure you will hear the good news soon!

  28. waiting guy i can not find ur comments back so posting here…
    i know here there are so many worried people from AD/VSC/PP i see flow decrease from vermont but just saw one of my fried in AD/VSC/PP got receipt we 6 people are still waiting from vermont/AD/PP hope they are not done and we all AD/PP/VSC guy get it…..
    God pls help all of AD people to get through this tensed situation….

    • atleast you heard that one of your friend got receipt for AD/PP/VSC …so that sounds like thye are not still yet done….hope all the AD guys get the receipt numbers …that NICK for the information

  33. Looks Like EAC and WAC has Regular Process Receipts also… I guess most of these applicaitons would have processed through Indian IT Gaints.. These companies would have not updated in their internal Portal Yet… So we are still thinking that Regular is still not yet processed..
    below comment says that they emailed the receipt details… this is not premium Processing….

    Did any one heard about regular H1 Processing??

    “On April 10, 2013, we received this I129 PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER and we e-mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case. Please follow any instructions on this notice. This case is being processed at our VERMONT SERVICE CENTER location. You will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address or call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283”

    • True….i am waiting from my company but not yet received any response……mine is under regular , general

      Good Luck everyone.

  37. For all the masters/premium processing/California, just want to update you that I have received my receipt late last night.
    The date received is 4/8, but my lawyer didn’t get an e-mail before late yesterday.
    So, don’t lose hope, all of you that are still waiting, they are just taking forever. I really wish that all of you received the receipts.
    Good luck!!!

  39. I have been reading this forum for the past 10 days regularly with lot of stress. Now it’s time for me to post something useful. Someone asked about receipt numbers with different digits. Mine is like that, EAC131325XXXX. It was applied on 4th, receipt dated 8th, I got the email on 10th. I have filed under Regular 65k cap. I wish luck for all who are waiting. Thank God Again!

  40. Heard people saying that they got a inside news of companies like tcs,infy,wipro,cognizant applying H1bs in mass number upto 20,000

    Wow if thats true … it has resulted in this lottery shit…!!

  41. I have been reading this forum for the past 10 days regularly with lot of stress. Now it’s time for me to post something useful. Someone asked about receipt numbers with different digits. Mine is like that, EAC#131325****. It was applied on 4th, receipt dated 8th, I got the email on 10th. I have filed under Regular 65k cap. I wish luck for all who are waiting. Thank God Again!

    • congrats! my application was received by uscis-csc on april 1st at 7:56 AM Pacific time and still haven’t heard back. how sad.

      • Thanks for the wish. I understand your situation and wish you luck soon. Keep us all updated once you receive your email with receipt number.

  42. AD/PP/CSC….just talked to the attorney…..no receipt number yet for ad/pp/csc……….waiting for my chance to come out of this…….

  44. My attorney did not file G1145. Will uscis notify my case by email without that form? I’m waiting for AD/PP/Vermont center. I run out of hope at this point.

    • Yes, if slected in lottery. You will be notified through email because in premium processing (I-907 form) petitoner’s should mention their email address.

  45. hello, i am Masters, PP and CSC I havent received any reply yet. Does it mean that I wont be selected in the lottery ?

  46. My attorney did not file G1145. Will uscis notify my case by email without that form? I’m waiting for AD/PP/Vermont center. I runn out of hope at this point.

  47. NON-MASTERS (NON-ADE)
    PREMIUM PROCESSING
    VERMONT SERVICE CENTER

    How many of us are out there still waiting? Anyone received EAC # yet?

  49. Congrats to all who have received the receipts and best of luck to all of us in waiting.. 🙂

    a Q for the ones who cleared lottery : Receipts for Premium processing are being sent by email or mail? Which method did your company/advocate receive it?

  50. From the trend here , it seems PP AD for Vermont has come to and end as we are now only seeing PP regular coming from Vermont. Not to cause panic, but can we conclude that those like me who sent to Vermont under PP AD and havent gotten receipt were unlucky? Has anyone received rejection notice OR package. Which once comes first for AD? Do they event open the package of rejected application to obtain email in order to notify? Please share you experience especialy if you have received rejection

    • Hi all,
      Just now got wac# from my attorney. Mine is general quota/pp/csc.
      Wishing best of luck for those waiting to hear.

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