Employers should prepare now to file H-1B petitions for their
professional-level prospective foreign employees on April 1, 2007. That is
the first allowable filing date for work to begin on October 1, which is
the first day of the 2008 government fiscal year. Given the serious
backlog that has been created because of the high demand for the limited
number of visas in this classification, there is a real possibility that
the entire allocation of 65,000 visas (the Cap) could be reached on or
within several days of the April 1 initial filing date.
