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On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 H-1B cap will start Friday, March 7, 2025, and run through March 24, 2025. USCIS stated, “During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary.” 

For more details and exact times, review the USCIS News Alert, “FY 2026 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 7“! 

 
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 H-1B cap will start Friday, March 7, 2025, and run through March 24, 2025. USCIS stated, “During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary.” 

For more details and exact times, review the USCIS News Alert, “FY 2026 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 7“! 

 
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 H-1B cap will start Friday, March 7, 2025, and run through March 24, 2025. USCIS stated, “During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary.” 

For more details and exact times, review the USCIS News Alert, “FY 2026 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 7“! 

 
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 H-1B cap will start Friday, March 7, 2025, and run through March 24, 2025. USCIS stated, “During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary.” 

For more details and exact times, review the USCIS News Alert, “FY 2026 H-1B Cap Initial Registration Period Opens on March 7“! 

 
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they have received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap, including the master’s cap, (65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption). They also completed sending non-selection notifications to online accounts for registrants. If not selected, status will show: Not Selected: Not selected – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration.

For more information, please read the USCIS news alert, “USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B Cap”!

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they have received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap, including the master’s cap, (65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption). They also completed sending non-selection notifications to online accounts for registrants. If not selected, status will show: Not Selected: Not selected – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration.

For more information, please read the USCIS news alert, “USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B Cap”!

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In March of this year, USCIS completed its initial random selection on properly submitted electronic registrations for the fiscal year 2025 H-1B cap, they have now determined they need more H-1B registrations to reach regular FY2025 allocation. They don’t need to conduct a second selection for the advanced degree exemption (Master’s Cap)! 

For more detailed information about this subject please review the USCIS News Alert, “USCIS Will Conduct Second Random Selection for Regular Cap from Previously Submitted FY 2025 H-1B Cap Registrations“. 

 
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The H-1B initial registration period has closed! FY 2025 H-1B cap season’s initial registration period has closed as of noon Eastern on Monday, March 25, 2024. The USCIS will now have to randomly select enough beneficiaries who have properly submitted applications to reach the cap allocations for FY 2025. The USCIS will issue an alert when H-1B selection has been completed! 

For further details please review the USCIS News Alert, “H-1B Form I-129 Filing Location Change and FY 2025 H-1B Cap Season Updates and Reminders“! 

 
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The USCIS initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap petitions opened on Wednesday, March 6th and runs through Friday, March 22, 2024, at noon Eastern. Prospective petitioners and their representatives must use a USCIS online account to register. The H-1B selection process will only be run on properly submitted online registrations from this initial registration period.  The USCIS stated that the H-1B registration fee for FY 2025 registrations will be $10 and will not increase. 

For more details, review the USCIS Web page at H-1B Electronic Registration Process! 

 
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they have received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap, including the master’s cap, (65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption). They also completed sending non-selection notifications to online accounts for registrants. If not selected, status will show: Not Selected: Not selected – not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based on this registration. 

For more information, please read the USCIS news alert, “USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2024 H-1B Cap”!  

 
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