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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 1 that it has received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap. Applicants...more
On April 1 , 2024, USCIS announced that it received enough electronic registrations during the initial registration period to reach the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap. A random selection (lottery) was conducted from the...more
USCIS has extended the fiscal year 2025 (FY 2025) H-1B cap registration period. The new deadline to submit cap registrations is Monday, March 25, 2024 at noon Eastern Daylight Time. The extension comes after employers and...more
Employers with candidates who require initial H-1B employment authorization should plan to submit a registration for those candidates when the H-1B electronic registration period opens on March 6, 2024. The electronic...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is expanding its electronic filing access to encompass all H-1B filings. This includes H-1B “cap” or “lottery” registrations and “non-cap” petitions through the rollout of...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began accepting electronic registrations for H-1B candidates, subject to the annual quota, beginning at noon Eastern on March 1, 2023. The registration period will run through...more
On January 27, 2023, USCIS announced the initial registration period for 2024 H-1B visa cap. Prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registrations online on the H-1B visa...more
This Holland & Knight alert details the upcoming 2024 H-1B Visa Cap Registration Period and related procedures. The registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap will open at noon EST on March 1, 2023, and run...more
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
Employers seeking to sponsor candidates for initial H-1B sponsorship (commonly known as "H-1B CAP") should begin preparing for the H-1B electronic registration process. Although the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more
The virtual transaction takes place: $10 in exchange for a string of randomly selected numbers and a chance at the “American Dream.” Regardless of how you define the “American Dream,” at its core is freedom and opportunity....more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will begin accepting electronic registrations for H-1B candidates, subject to the annual quota, beginning on noon Eastern on March 1, 2022. The registration...more
Employers seeking to sponsor candidates for initial H-1B sponsorship should note that the H-1B electronic registration dates have been announced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS has announced that...more
While H-1B cap efforts remain underway for fiscal year (FY) 2022, employers may want to push forward now with preparations for FY 2023 H-1B cap season. (According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) announced on January 28, 2022, that this year’s annual application period for the FY 2022 H-1B program will run from March 1, 2022, through March 18, 2022. Continuing the new...more
With H-1B season upon us, it is time to review the visa status expirations for foreign national employees. There may be some who will need to change visa status to H-1B for continued employment with your company. For example,...more
This is an exciting time of the year, both as a baseball fan and as an immigration attorney. Pitchers and catchers have reported to their teams’ spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona....more
USCIS is conducting a second lottery for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap, and has started to notify employers that additional registrations have been selected. Employers with selected registrations from the second...more
Many employers seek to leverage foreign talent by hiring highly skilled foreign professionals through use of the United States’ H-1B visa program. As covered previously by HR Legalist, because there is a cap on the number of...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently provided additional guidance for the H-1B electronic registration process for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap, which begins at noon Eastern standard time on March 1,...more
As we’ve previously explained, some big changes are coming this year to the H-1B visa process. Employers use H-1B visas to temporarily employ workers in “specialty occupations” – generally, jobs that require a bachelor’s...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”) is now requiring that employers register on myaccount.uscis.gov and pay a one-time ten (10) dollar registration fee in order to participate in the Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B Visa...more
H-1B cap filing season is fast approaching. U.S. employers who sponsor foreign workers for temporary H-1B work visas should start preparing now for the upcoming new H-1B cap electronic registration commencing this year on...more
On January 31, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a final rule making significant changes to the H-1B CAP lottery process. This rule added an electronic registration requirement for employers...more
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed it will utilize a new electronic registration system for the Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B lottery. By way of background, the H-1B visa program allows companies in the United...more