On February 5, 2025, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the online H-1B lottery will take place from noon ET on March 7, 2025, until noon ET on March 24, 2025. USCIS expects to...more
2/12/2025
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H-1B lottery will be open from March 1 until March 18, 2022.
There will be no changes from last year’s lottery rules...more
- New DHS regulation mandates use of an electronic H-1B registration system.
- Registration system will be open for only 20 days.
- Employers who win H-1B lottery but then do not file H-1B petitions may be penalized....more
2/18/2020
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• DHS has announced that it has finalized the previously proposed rule governing the H-1B lottery. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2019.
• DHS will reverse the order of the H-1B lottery...more
2/8/2019
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• Prior to submitting petitions for H-1B visas, employers first will be required to register electronically with USCIS during a designated registration period.
• DHS proposes to use a computer-generated process to select a...more
12/11/2018
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