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FY2025 H-1B Lottery Registration Begins

On January 30, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the FY2025 H-1B Cap Lottery will open at noon Eastern Time (EST) on March 6, 2024, and run through noon...more

USCIS Completes H-1B FY24 CAP Initial Electronic Registration Selection Process

On Monday, March 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B...more

FY2024 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration

On Friday, January 27, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the FY2024 H-1B Cap Lottery will begin on March 1, 2023. The initial registration will open at...more

USCIS Announces the H-1B cap for FY23 Has Been Reached

On August 23, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B...more

H-1B Lottery for Fiscal Year 2023 Completed

On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USICS) announced that it had received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2023 H-1B...more

FY2023 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration

On Friday, January 28, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the FY2023 H-1B Cap Lottery will begin on March 1, 2022. The initial registration will open at...more

FY2022 H-1B Cap Lottery Registration

On Friday, February 5, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the FY2022 H-1B Cap Lottery will begin on March 9, 2021. ...more

USCIS Announces Suspension of Premium Processing for H-1B Cap Cases To Be Filed Beginning April 1

USCIS announced on March 17, 2020, the temporary suspension of premium processing service for fiscal year (FY) 2021 cap-subject H-1B petitions. Once USCIS begins accepting cap-subject petitions on April 1, we will not be able...more

H-1B Electronic Registration Process Operational for the Fiscal Year 2021 Cap Season

On December 6, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it successfully completed the pilot testing for its online registration system that will be implemented in the 2020 H-1B lottery. This will...more

USCIS Extends and Expands Suspension of Premium Processing for H-1B Petitions

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, that the previously announced temporary suspension of premium processing for cap-subject H-1B petitions will continue and be expanded....more

USCIS Announces Temporary Suspension of Premium Processing for Fiscal Year 2019 H-1B Cap Cases

USCIS announced on March 20, 2018, that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for all FY2019 H-1B cap-subject petitions, including petitions seeking an exemption for individuals with a U.S. master’s degree or higher....more

USCIS Confirms No Procedural Changes for H-1B FY2019 Cap Season

Monday, April 2, 2018, is just around the corner and begins the FY2019 H-1B cap filing season. Employers are urged to begin now to prepare for filing H-1B petitions subject to the cap. As reported earlier this week, due to...more

Premium Processing Reinstated for All H-1B Cases

USCIS announced that premium processing has been reinstated for all H-1B petitions. Effective October 3, 2017, employers may request to upgrade pending H-1B petitions to premium processing. Suspension of premium processing...more

USCIS Reinstates Premium Processing for H-1B Cap Subject Petitions

USCIS announced on Monday, September 18, 2017, that it will immediately accept premium processing requests of all H-1B visa petitions subject to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 cap. H-1B cap petitions filed in April 2017,...more

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