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Featured Issue: FY2024 Cap-Subject H-1B Filing Season

1/30/24 AILA Doc. No. 19102407. Business Immigration, H-1B & H-1B1 Specialty Occupation

Stay tuned for information on the FY2025 cap-subject H-1B filing season.

 


 

Resources and Information for the FY2024 H-1B Cap Filing Season

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FY2024 H-1B Cap Results

USCIS announced that for FY2024, it received 758,994 eligible registrations (compared to 474,421 registrations in FY2023), and that 110,791 applications were selected.

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AILA Responds:

 

For the FY2024 H-1B cap-filing season, USCIS conducted the H-1B electronic registration process from March 1 to March 20, 2023, and began announcing selections on March 25, 2023. On March 27, 2023, USCIS formally announced that they had received sufficient registrations to reach the FY2024 H-1B cap and that the selection process had been completed. To date, USCIS has not publicly released either the total number of electronic registrations it received for the regular and master’s cap or the number of registrations selected for processing.

 

Currently, for each registration, the USCIS online account indicates “Submitted,” “Selected,” “Denied,” or “Invalidated – Failed Payment” and at the end of the fiscal year, unused “Submitted” registrations will be changed to “Not Selected.”

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FY2024 H-1B Cap Season: How to Prepare in Light of Lessons Learned

The expert panelists for this intermediate seminar will discuss the lottery system and address other general issues of filing FY2024 cap-subject cases based on the current landscape for H-1Bs, including updated SOC categories and wages.

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Cap-Subject H-1B Filing Tips and Resources for FY2024

AILA’s USCIS Case Assistance Committee and HQ Benefits Committee on provided a review of some of the best filing tips and resources that may be useful for the FY2024 filing season and beyond.

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Resources and Information for the FY2024 H-1B Cap Filing Season

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Additional AILA and government resources from the FY2023, FY2022, and FY2021 H-1B cap filing seasons, which members may find useful for the current filing season, may be found in the expandable sections below.

 


 

Resources and Information for the FY2023 H-1B Cap Filing Season

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Resources and Information for the FY2022 H-1B Cap Filing Season

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Create a myUSCIS account with this step-by-step how to by AILA’s Practice & Professionalism Center. (It addresses what two-factor authentication options are and which to choose, too.) USCIS released videos in 2020 with instructions on how to create a myUSCIS account and the electronic registration process for registrants as well as attorneys and representatives. These videos can be helpful for purposes of preparing for the FY2022 registration process.


How to Create a USCIS Online Account

H-1B Electronic Registration Process: Registrants

H-1B Electronic Registration Process:
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Resources and Information from the FY2021 H-1B Cap Filing Season

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Per USCIS:

We will open an initial registration period from March 1 through March 20, 2020, for the FY 2021 H-1B numerical allocations.

  • During this timeframe, H-1B cap-subject petitioners, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, seeking to file a FY 2021 H-1B cap petition will be required to first register electronically with USCIS and pay the associated $10 H-1B registration fee for each submission.
  • Prospective petitioners or their authorized representatives must electronically submit a separate registration naming each alien for whom they seek to file an H-1B cap-subject petition. Duplicate registrations are prohibited.
  • As described in the H-1B registration final rule, if more than a sufficient number of registrations are received, we will randomly select the number of registrations projected as needed to reach the FY 2021 H-1B numerical allocations after the initial registration period closes and notify registrants with selected registrations no later than March 31, 2020.
  • Prospective petitioners with selected registrations will be eligible to file a FY 2021 cap-subject petition only for the alien named in the registration and within the filing period indicated on the eligibility notice.

We will not consider a cap-subject H-1B petition to be properly filed unless it is based on a valid, selected registration for the same beneficiary and the appropriate fiscal year, unless the registration requirement is suspended. Additionally, although petitioners can register multiple aliens during a single online submission, a petitioner may only submit one registration per beneficiary in any fiscal year. If a petitioner submits more than one registration per beneficiary in the same fiscal year, all registrations filed by that petitioner relating to that beneficiary for that fiscal year will be considered invalid.

On February 5, 2020, USCIS released the following information about registration selection notifications:

USCIS intends to notify registrants and their representatives with selected registrations via their USCIS online accounts no later than March 31, 2020.

A registrant’s USCIS online account will show one of the four following statuses for each registration:

  • Submitted: A registration status may continue to show “Submitted” after the initial selection process has been completed. "Submitted" registrations will remain in consideration for selection until the end of the fiscal year, at which point all registration statuses will be Selected, Not Selected or Denied.
  • Selected: Selected to file an FY 2021 H-1B cap-subject petition.
  • Not Selected: Not selected for this fiscal year.
    • Please note that a registration will not reflect a status of Not Selected until the conclusion of the fiscal year. In the event that USCIS determines that it needs to increase the number of registrations projected to meet the H-1B regular cap or the advanced degree exemption allocation, USCIS will select from registrations held in reserve to meet the H-1B regular cap or advanced degree exemption allocation.
  • Denied: The same registrant or representative submitted more than one registration on the beneficiary’s behalf for the same fiscal year. All registrations the registrant or representative submitted on behalf of the same beneficiary for the same fiscal year are invalid.

H-1B cap-subject beneficiaries, including those eligible for the advanced degree exemption, must have a “Selected” registration notification in order for a registrant or representative to properly file an H-1B cap-subject petition for FY 2021. Registrants and representatives will not be notified until the end of the fiscal year if they are not selected. The status of registrations not selected as part of any initial random selection process and not denied will remain as “Submitted.”

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