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…
The FY 2025 H-1B cap registration period will open at noon ET on March 6, 2024 and will close at noon ET on March 22, 2024. All cap registrations must be drafted and submitted online during this period. A beneficiary-centric…
A final DHS regulation that will change the H-1B cap registration system to a beneficiary-centric system will be in effect for the FY 2025 H-1B cap registration period, which will run from noon ET on March 6 to noon ET…
Effective April 1, 2024, USCIS will increase and create separate filing fees for H-1B, L-1, and other nonimmigrant case types. The H-1B petition fee will rise to $780, from $460, a 70% increase. The L-1 petition fee will increase to…
A final DHS regulation that would revise some aspects of the H-1B program has been cleared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Contents of the final rule will not be known until publication in the Federal Register. However,…
A final DHS fee regulation that would increase the filing fees for many USCIS immigration benefit filings has cleared the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) federal review process, putting the regulation closer to implementation. The new fee regulation is…