Today USCIS announced it has received enough electronic registrations during the initial period to reach the FY2021 H-1B cap.  USCIS conducted a lottery by randomly selecting from the registrations properly submitted.  USCIS will notify petitioners with registrations selected no later than March 31, 2020.  Petitioners will be able to file an H-1B cap subject petition for the beneficiary named in the selected registration.

Registrants online accounts are being updated and will show one of the following statuses for each registration:

• Submitted: The registration status may continue to show ‘submitted’ after the initial selection process as these registrations will remain in consideration for selection until the end of the fiscal year.
• Selected:  The petitioner may proceed to file an FY 2021 H-1B cap-subject petition on behalf of the beneficiary in the applicable selected registration.
• Denied:  A duplicate registration was submitted by the same registrant for the same beneficiary, or a payment method was declined.

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