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Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: USCIS Releases Deadlines for H-1B Cap Initial Registration

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated employers and immigration practitioners regarding important dates for the upcoming H-1B lottery registration. This year, the online registration period for the H-1B...more

Dickinson Wright

Introducing USCIS’s New Online Organizational Account

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In February 2024, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) launched its new online Organizational Account, which allows for the online filing of H-1B petitions and enhances collaboration between clients...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

USCIS Proposed Rule to Modernize H-1B Program — Should Employers Be Happy or Worried?

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USCIS released a proposed rule that aims to update and modernize the H-1B program by publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend current regulations. The proposed rule covers a wide range of issues related to...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

H-1B Cap Season for USCIS Fiscal Year 2024 Registration Opens on March 1, 2023

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As many Employers and Foreign Nationals are likely aware, the H-1B CAP Season for USCIS 2024 Fiscal Year rapidly approaches. On Friday USICS announced it will open H-1B CAP registration at noon (12PM ET) on March 1, 2023, and...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

FY 2024 H-1B cap season has begun: What you need to know

The annual H-1B cap season has begun for Fiscal Year 2024. Once again, there will be a two-step process – the registration step and then, if the registration is selected in the H-1B cap lottery, the petition step. Now is the...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

H-1B Pre-Registration Schedule Set by USCIS For March 2022

On January 28, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the registration dates for FY 2023 H-1B cap filings with the agency. Filing submission dates are March 1, 2022, at 12 p.m. ET and the registration...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Cap Closed: USCIS Notifies Selected H-1B Cap Registrants

The H-1B cap selection process has ended and the race to file petitions for selected registrants has begun. USCIS announced that on March 30, 2021, enough electronic registrations had been received during the initial...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

FY2022 H-1B Cap Registration Dates Announced

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As anxiously awaited, USCIS has announced the initial FY2022 H-1B Cap Registration dates. Employer Electronic Registration will open on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time and continue through Thursday, March...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Get Ready For H-1B Cap Season, With Or Without Changes

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Following up on its November announcement, last week USCIS issued a Final Rule to change the way cap-subject H-1B petitions are selected. The Final Rule (which is unchanged from the proposed November Rule) would...more

K&L Gates LLP

H-1B Electronic Registration Process

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On Friday, December 6, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it successfully completed a pilot of the online H-1B registration system and will move forward with implementing the system...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

DHS Issues Final Rule Changing H-1B Cap Selection Process

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a new rule on January 31, 2019 that makes significant changes to the way in which DHS will administer the annual H-1B allocation (the H-1B cap). Starting in April 2019, DHS...more

Fisher Phillips

Massive Changes To H-1B System Proposed For 2019

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently proposed a new rule that could dramatically change the way the H-1B application process works. The rule would establish an electronic pre-registration system and run the...more

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It’s Time to Register for the 2016 Diversity Lottery!

On October 1, 2014, the U.S. Department of State will begin accepting requests to register for the 2016 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2016), also known as the Green Card Lottery. The Diversity Lottery Program provides...more

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Immigration Client Alert: Diversity Visa ("Green Card Lottery") Registration

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On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, online registration for the Diversity Visa (DV) 2016 Program will begin. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity...more

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