www.USCIS.gov provides H-1B visa, which is the government site. The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a) (15) (H). To employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in a specialized field and a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, Some U.S. employers use H-1B visa program. Another employer can be founded by the worker or apply for a change of status to another non-immigrant status, or must leave the U.S., if a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer.

Architects, engineers, computer programmers, accountants, doctors and college professors are included in Typical H1B occupations. Certain fashion models of distinguished merit and ability and up to 100 persons who will be performing services of an exceptional nature in connection with Department of Defense (DOD) research and development projects or co-production projects are also included in the H-1B. The current annual cap on the H-1B category is 65,000, not all H-1B non-immigrant are subject to this annual cap. Keep in mind that besides the cap of 65,000 during each fiscal year for the H-1B1 program under the terms of the legislation implementing the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements, up to 6,800 visas may be set. For H-1B use for the next fiscal year, unused numbers in this pool are made available.

Definition of Cap:

The word "Cap" used in this Update refers to annual numerical limitations, which are set by Congress on certain non-immigrant visa classifications, for example H-1B and H-2B. The number of aliens is controlled by Caps, which is already in the United States that may be endorsed to change status to a cap-subject classification. To the persons who have already been counted against the cap in a particular non-immigrant classification and are seeking to extend their stay in that classification, the annual numerical limitations generally do not apply.

H-1B Employer Exemptions:

H-1B non-immigrants who are employed or who have received an offer of employment via institutions of higher education or a related or affiliated nonprofit entity, as well as those employed, or who will be employed, by a nonprofit research organization or a governmental research organization are exempt from the cap.

Fiscal Year 2010 H-1B Cap Count:

Sufficient appeals have been received to reach the statutory cap for FY2010 as of December 21, 2009. Over 20,000 H-1B petitions on behalf of persons exempt from the cap under the advanced degree exemption have also been received by USCIS. Cap-subject petitions will be rejected by USCIS for new H-1B specialty occupation workers seeking an employment start date in FY2010 that are received after December 21, 2009. A computer-generated random selection process will be applied by USCIS to all petitions that are subject to the cap and were received on December 21, 2009.

H1B Visa 2010 Application Status:

Visit my case status page, if you want to check your case status and enter your receipt number of 13 characters which have been received from the USCIS by you, it starts with three letters such as (EAC, WAC, LIN, or SRC). Dashes (“-”) should be omitted when entering a receipt number. Then click on check status option, you can see seven steps of checking status, including,

• Acceptance: newly received application and petitions are reviewed by USCIS to ensure that they are properly filed, during the acceptance step.
• Initial Review: the background checks of the applicant or petitioner is initiated by USCIS or petitioner and identifies issues during the initial review. These issues may need to be addressed either during an interview or by asking the applicant/petitioner to submit additional information or documentation.
• Request for Evidence: to determine an applicant's eligibility for the benefit sought, when an application or petition is lacking required documentation or evidence or the officer needs other documents, a Request for evidence is made.
• Testing and interview: if your status indicates that you are currently in the testing and interview step, you either have been scheduled for an interview or are line to be scheduled for an interview.
• Decision: the decision notice is mailed to the applicant or petitioner, and the former decision is written, in decision step. You can use current processing time to gauge, When you except to receive a final decision.
• Post Decision Activity: USCIS sending notification of the approved application or petition to the national visa center or the department of state may be included in post Decision Activity for approved applications or petitions. The processing of an appeal and motions are to reopen or reconsider and revocations may be included by Post Decision Activity for denied applications or petitions.
• Document Production or Oath Ceremony: Document Production or Oath Ceremony step applies to application to provide green card or other document (a neutralization certificate, refugee travel document or advance parole) to an applicant. Application will be the Document Production or Oath Ceremony step, From the time order to produce the card or document is given until the card or document is produced and mailed to the applicant.

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