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United States: FY 2024 H-1B Registration Period Closes; USCIS Expected to Conduct Selection Lotteries and Notify Employers By March 31

March 20, 2023

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At a glance

  • The H-1B cap registration period for FY 2024 closed today at 5pm EDT. No further registrations are being accepted.
  • In the coming days, USCIS is expected to conduct lotteries to select enough registrations to meet the FY 2024 quota of 85,000.
  • USCIS has said that it expects to notify employers of lottery results by March 31. Selection notices will indicate whether the registration was selected under the regular or the advanced degree quota.
  • The agency will accept H-1B cap petitions on behalf of selected beneficiaries for at least 90 days, beginning April 1.

The issue

The H-1B cap registration period has now closed. USCIS will accept no further cap registrations against the FY 2024 quota. 

What’s next: the cap lotteries

In the coming days, the agency will conduct two selection lotteries to choose the beneficiaries on whose behalf an H-1B cap petition can be filed. The first lottery will contain all registered H-1B beneficiaries. USCIS will use this lottery to select enough registrations to meet the regular H-1B cap of 65,000. The second lottery will contain all registered advanced degree-cap beneficiaries who were not selected in the first lottery. USCIS will use this second lottery to select enough registrations to meet the H-1B cap exemption of 20,000 for holders of U.S. advanced degrees.

Lottery results notification

USCIS plans to notify employers and immigration counsel of the lottery results by March 31. For each cap registration, USCIS should send an email to the employer’s authorized signatory and immigration counsel. The email will notify the recipient that there has been a change in the status of a cap registration. To learn the lottery results, your Fragomen attorney or your company’s authorized signatory will need to access their my.USCIS.gov account and review the status of each beneficiary.

If a beneficiary has been selected, the USCIS system will provide a selection notice for the case, which must be printed for inclusion with the H-1B cap petition to be filed for the beneficiary. The notice will provide the USCIS address where the petition must be filed; this address may be different from the filing location where the employer’s petitions are usually filed.

The selection notice will also identify whether the H-1B registration was selected under the regular or the advanced degree quota. H-1B petitions must be filed under the category in which they were selected.

Petition filing set to begin April 1

USCIS will begin to accept H-1B cap petitions on behalf of lottery selectees on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The petition filing period will end no earlier than 90 days thereafter. The precise end date of the H-1B cap filing period will be included on the H-1B selection notice. All FY 2024 H-1B cap petitions must be submitted during the designated filing period.

Though in most cases a cap petition can be filed at any point during the filing period, some cases may need to be filed at specific times. If the beneficiary is an F-1 student working on optional practical training (OPT) who will need cap-gap protection, the petition must be filed before his or her OPT employment authorization document expires. If the beneficiary is awaiting completion or award of a required degree, the petition must not be filed until the degree has been issued or the beneficiary has obtained documentation from the appropriate school official that degree requirements have been satisfied.

The adjudication period and availability of premium processing

USCIS is expected to begin receipting and adjudicating H-1B cap petitions as they are received during the filing period. Despite the minimum 90-day duration of the filing period, petitioners in prior years have experienced delayed receipting of H-1B cap petitions.

At this time, premium processing is being accepted for H-1B cap petitions, but in prior years, USCIS has announced premium service suspensions with little or no notice.

What this means for employers

In the coming days, your organization’s H-1B registration leads should look out for emails from the USCIS registration system notifying them of action taken on the organization’s registrations. Your Fragomen attorneys will also receive these notifications. You and your attorneys will need to log into the registration system to determine which beneficiaries have been selected.

To facilitate the submission of H-1B cap petitions, work closely with your Fragomen team so that essential supporting evidence, including company documentation, beneficiary educational documents and the like, can be collected promptly if not yet gathered.

Fragomen is closely monitoring H-1B cap developments and will issue frequent updates throughout the cap season.

This alert is for informational purposes only. If you have any questions, please contact the immigration professional with whom you work at Fragomen.

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