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An Employers’ Guide to Navigating H-1B Season: Answers to Your Top Questions

Fisher Phillips on 3/10/2025

Are you confused about how to navigate the timelines and requirements for the H-1B cap season? It’s complicated! The registration window officially opened Friday – and employers that want to hire highly skilled foreign...more

Client Alert: USCIS Finally Publishes the Dates for the New Fiscal Year’s H-1B lottery

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 2/26/2024

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently updated employers and immigration practitioners regarding important dates to keep in mind regarding the upcoming H-1B registration for the upcoming H-1B lottery. This...more

Ready, Set, Go . . . H-1B FY2025 Lottery Registration Dates Announced with Process Changes

Burr & Forman on 2/8/2024

Employers wishing to sponsor a candidate for an H-1B visa in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 are approaching an important time of year. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced the H-1B cap lottery...more

USCIS Announces H-1B Electronic Registration Process for Upcoming Cap Season and Postpones Rule Prioritizing H-1B Cap Case...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/9/2021

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will hold the H-1B electronic registration process for the fiscal year 2022 H-1B cap (from which the annual H-1B lottery will be run). Registration begins at...more

USCIS Provides Additional Guidance for H-1B Electronic Registration Process for FY 2021 H-1B Cap

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/20/2020

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently provided additional guidance for the H-1B electronic registration process for the fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap, which begins at noon Eastern standard time on March 1,...more

Help for H-1B Hopefuls? Changes Coming to the H-1B Visa Cap Process

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/15/2019

Employers who seek to sponsor foreign workers for cap-subject H-1B visas in 2020 will likely see a big change in the process – the use of an electronic pre-registration system that many believe will improve efficiency and...more

The Pre-Registration System For H-1 Cap Filings – A Losing Race to April 1, 2019?

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/14/2018

Will thousands of H-1 cap petitions be received by USCIS Service Centers on Monday, April 1, 2019, or will online pre-registrations during the month of March make Monday, April 1 a quiet day at USCIS?...more

USCIS Developments on the Discretion Afforded Adjudicators, and H-1B Premium Processing

Littler on 9/18/2018

In recent weeks, several notable policy changes have taken place concerning the adjudication of immigration petitions by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)....more

H-1B Cap: Critical Filing Dates for FY 2019

Littler on 2/9/2018

Employers seeking to sponsor H-1B workers for Fiscal Year 2019 can begin filing petitions on April 2, 2018 (April 1 is a Sunday), for a start date of October 1, 2018. ...more

Dealing with Rejection: Options for Applicants Not Selected in the FY2016 H-1B Lottery

Franczek P.C. on 6/10/2015

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s announcement last month that it received nearly 233,000 H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2016 beginning October 1, 2015—a record total, and a 35% increase over last...more

Employers Should Begin Preparation for Opening of FY 2016 H-1B Cap

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 1/12/2015

The beginning of the calendar year is the perfect time for employers to begin planning for the FY 2016 H-1B cap filing season, which will begin on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. ...more

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