USCIS’s new online portal for H-1B cap registration officially opened today.  Employers and their Representatives may submit H-1B cap registrations starting today, March 1, 2020, through noon Eastern on March 20, 2020.  All FY 2021 cap registrations must be submitted during this time.  USCIS will run the H-1B cap lotteries between the close of the registration period on March 20, 2020 and March 31, 2020.   Petitioners with registrations selected in the lottery may begin filing FY 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions with USCIS on April 1, 2020.  This is an entirely new process and employer-petitioners must take note: an H-1B cap-subject petition may only be filed by a petitioner whose registration for a specific beneficiary was selected in the H-1B registration.

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