FY 2022 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 9
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USCIS today announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 H-1B cap will open at noon Eastern on 9th March 2021 and run through noon Eastern on 25th March. During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to fill out petitioner and beneficiary data and submit their registrations.
A confirmation number will be assigned to each registration submitted for the FY 2022 H-1B cap. This number is utilized only to track registrations; you can’t utilize this number to track your case status in Case of Status Online.
Prospective H-1B cap-subject petitioners or their representatives are required to utilize a myUSCIS online account. To register every beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated $10 H-1B registration fee for each registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary. Prospective petitioners submitting their own registrations (U.S. employers and U.S. agents, collectively known as “registrants”) will utilize a “registrant” account that will be available soon.
FY 2022 H-1B Cap
Representatives may add customers to their accounts at any time. Yet both representatives and registrants should wait until March 9th to enter beneficiary information and submit the $10 fee. Prospective petitioners or their representatives will be capable to submit registrations for multiple beneficiaries in a single online meeting. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit, and store draft registrations prior to the final payment and submission of each registration.
If USCIS receives enough registrations by 25th March 2021, then they will randomly select registrations. And send selection notifications via users’ myUSCIS online accounts. USCIS intends to notify account holders by 31st March.
An H-1B cap-subject petition may only be filed by a petitioner. Whose registration for that beneficiary was selected in the H-1B registration process.
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However, USCIS will conduct public engagements and other outreach activities. To guarantee that representatives and registrants are familiar with the electronic registration process.
H-1B Selection Process Rule Effective Date Delay
Also, USCIS has announced that DHS is delaying the effective date of the H-1B Selection Process final rule until 31st December 2021. USCIS will apply the regulations currently in place (random selection) to the initial registration period. And if, any subsequent registration period for the FY 2022 registration process that takes place before December 31st, 2021.
