U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fiscal year 2018 cap on April 3, 2017. All cap-subject H-1B petitions filed before April 3, 2017, for the FY 2018 cap will be rejected.
This document was released by USCIS by mistake in March 2009 and contains the criteria USCIS uses to refer cases for fraud investigations.