USCIS selected an additional 13,607 unique beneficiaries in the second round of the FY 2025 H-1B cap lottery. As a result of the second drawing, the overall selection rate of unique beneficiaries increased to approximately 29%, from approximately 26% after…
USCIS announced today that it has completed a second lottery of properly submitted FY 2025 H-1B cap petitions to meet the regular cap of 65,000. Employers and their counsel should review their H-1B registration accounts to determine whether they have received any…
Today USCIS announced that it plans to run a second lottery of properly submitted FY 2025 H-1B cap registrations to select additional unique beneficiaries. The additional lottery is taking place because USCIS did not receive enough H-1B cap petitions during…
Employers have just two more weeks to file petitions for foreign nationals selected in the FY 2025 H-1B cap lottery before the end of the filing period on June 30, 2024. It is not yet known whether USCIS will conduct…
USCIS received eligible registrations for 442,000 unique beneficiaries in the FY 2025 H-1B cap season and selected 114,017 – or 25.8% – of these beneficiaries. The overall number of registrations submitted in FY 2025 decreased sharply from last year; 470,342…
If you are an F-1 student who has applied for or is working on optional practical training (OPT) or who will be the beneficiary of a petition to change status to H-1B in this year’s H-1B cap filing season, make…
The annual quota of 85,000 H-1B cap beneficiaries was met in the initial registration period for employment in FY 2025, according to USCIS. The precise number of cap registrations submitted has not yet been disclosed. The agency has completed the…
USCIS is extending the registration deadline because of outages that affected the H-1B cap registration system. Employers and their immigration counsel will have more time to submit registrations for the FY 2025 H-1B cap selection lotteries. The original deadline was…
Employers and their immigration counsel have until Friday, March 22, at noon ET to submit registrations for the FY 2025 H-1B cap lottery. Employers should work with their immigration counsel to complete their review and approval of draft registrations as…
Employers can now create new organizational accounts and upgrade existing accounts in USCIS’s revised online H-1B cap registration system. H-1B cap registration opens at noon ET on March 6, 2024. Employers must have an account in order to register beneficiaries…