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Following the H-1B lottery, where roughly half of the applications were rejected in the lottery, we are providing an overview of the pending H-1B relief bills in Congress. The main piece of legislation in connection with H-1B relief is the SKIL Bill (HR 1930, S 1083). The bill would raise the H-1B cap to 115,000 and provide for market-based increase if the cap has been reached during the previous years. The bill would also exempt from the cap professionals with U.S. master's or higher degrees AND some medical specialty certificate awardees. Finally, the SKIL Bill contemplates including into the 20,000 advanced degree cap holders of advanced degree from non-U.S. educational institutions. Please read the full article for more details on the pending bills in Congress seeking to provide H-1B relief.