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In February 2024, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) launched its new online Organizational Account, which allows for the online filing of H-1B petitions and enhances collaboration between clients...more
USCIS released a proposed rule that aims to update and modernize the H-1B program by publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend current regulations. The proposed rule covers a wide range of issues related to...more
On February 2, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will issue a final ruledesigned to improve the integrity of the H-1B registration program. The rule, titled, “Improving the H-1B Registration Selection Process...more
It’s that time of year again when employers have to decide who they are sponsoring for an H-1B visa. What to Know - The lottery registration period will be from 12:00 pm EST on March 1, 2023, to 12:00 pm EST on March...more
As many Employers and Foreign Nationals are likely aware, the H-1B CAP Season for USCIS 2024 Fiscal Year rapidly approaches. On Friday USICS announced it will open H-1B CAP registration at noon (12PM ET) on March 1, 2023, and...more
The annual H-1B cap season has begun for Fiscal Year 2024. Once again, there will be a two-step process – the registration step and then, if the registration is selected in the H-1B cap lottery, the petition step. Now is the...more
The start of a new calendar year means that it is H-1B cap filing season again. This year the process will once again be implemented through the USCIS online lottery registration tool....more
U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will conduct its annual electronic registration process for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap in March 2023. Employers should start planning for cap registration now by...more
On Friday, January 28, 2022, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the online registration period for H-1B quota selection for the upcoming fiscal year will begin on March 1 at 12:00 pm (noon) Eastern...more
On January 28, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the registration dates for FY 2023 H-1B cap filings with the agency. Filing submission dates are March 1, 2022, at 12 p.m. ET and the registration...more
With the New Year upon us, it is time to begin the initial H-1B process for any interested companies or organizations with foreign workers. Now is the time to see if anyone will need assistance with an H-1B petition...more
In a move not seen since the introduction of the electronic H-1B registration process, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a third round of lottery selections for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap...more
The H-1B cap selection process has ended and the race to file petitions for selected registrants has begun. USCIS announced that on March 30, 2021, enough electronic registrations had been received during the initial...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has just closed its annual H-1B registration, and employers are anxiously awaiting news on whether USCIS has selected...more
February 25, 2021 – The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap is quickly approaching. The registration period will open at 12 p.m. EST on...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”) announced on February 5, 2021, that this year’s annual application period for the FY 2022 H-1B program will run from March 9, 2021, through March 25, 2021. Continuing the new...more
Last year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rolled out for the first time a new electronic registration tool for H-1B cap cases as part of its implementation of regulations issued in January 2019. The 2019...more
On Friday, February 5, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the dates for this year’s H-1B pre-registration filing period. This filing period is highly anticipated by U.S. sponsoring companies...more
H-1B lottery deadlines are fast approaching, and two questions have been plaguing employers: 1.When does the registration window open/close? 2.Will the registration process be the same as last year?...more
As anxiously awaited, USCIS has announced the initial FY2022 H-1B Cap Registration dates. Employer Electronic Registration will open on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time and continue through Thursday, March...more
USCIS just announced that it will be publishing a notice in the Federal Register to delay implementation of changes to the H-1B Selection Final Rule until December 31, 2021. If published as preliminarily announced, this will...more
Following up on its November announcement, last week USCIS issued a Final Rule to change the way cap-subject H-1B petitions are selected. The Final Rule (which is unchanged from the proposed November Rule) would...more
On Friday, December 6, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it successfully completed a pilot of the online H-1B registration system and will move forward with implementing the system...more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a new rule on January 31, 2019 that makes significant changes to the way in which DHS will administer the annual H-1B allocation (the H-1B cap). Starting in April 2019, DHS...more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently proposed a new rule that could dramatically change the way the H-1B application process works. The rule would establish an electronic pre-registration system and run the...more