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USCIS Launches H-1B Online Visa Lottery: How to Register

On December 6, 2019, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service announced that it plans to introduce an electronic registration system for applicants for H-1B work visas for fiscal year 2021, recalls the official website USCIS. From March 1, 2020, the procedure came into force: now applicants wishing to submit documents must first register in electronic form and then pay the corresponding registration fee of $ 10 for each H-1B visa applicant.

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The electronic registration process should greatly simplify the processing of applications by reducing paperwork and sharing data, as well as provide overall cost savings for employers wishing to file an H-1B petition, the agency said.

Under the new procedure, potential applicants (also known as registrants) and their authorized representatives applying for permission to hire workers on an H-1B visa will go through the registration process, requiring only basic information about the potential applicant and each of the requested employees.

The initial registration period for the upper visa limit for fiscal year 2021 was open at noon Eastern time on March 1, 2020 and will remain open until noon on March 20, 2020. After that, the H-1B applicants random selection process will enter the case, in which only correctly executed electronic forms will participate. Only those who are selected will be eligible to apply for H-1B. Potential applicants will not be able to apply directly for a visa until they register within the indicated initial period.

The agency offers to learn more about the H-1B program at special page its official website.

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How to register

To apply for registration of H-1B, you must first create USCIS online account.

Prospective applicants/registrants will use a new "registrant" account. Self-filing registrants will enter their company information during their first H-1B filing. Registrants working with a representative will review the company information that the representative enters.

Representatives can create an account at any time before the end of the registration period or use an existing one. Unlike owners of registration accounts, representatives enter information about their law firm or organization.

If you are a potential applicant (registrant), the video will help you learn how to register without the participation of a lawyer or representative.

If you are a lawyer or representative, this video will show you how to register for clients.

Required Fees

Registered individuals and representatives are required to pay a non-refundable registration fee of $ 10 for each applicant before being able to apply for registration of this applicant as part of the H-1B visa limit for fiscal year 2021.

Important Dates

  • March 1: The registration period for H-1B opened at noon Eastern time.
  • March 20: H-1B registration period closes at noon Eastern time.
  • March 31: The date by which USCIS intends to notify individual account holders.
  • April 1: the earliest date that applications related to the fiscal year 2021 limit can be submitted.

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Selection Notifications

The Citizenship and Immigration Service intends to notify registrants and their representatives of their choice through their USCIS online accounts no later than March 31, 2020.

The USCIS account will display one of the following four statuses for each registration:

Submitted: The registration status may still show as Submitted after the initial selection process has completed. Such registrations will be considered for selection until the end of the fiscal year, after which all registration statuses will be marked as "selected", "not selected" or "rejected".

Selected selected to apply for the H-1B visa limit for fiscal year 2021.

Not Selected: not selected for this fiscal year.

Please note that registration will not reflect Not Selected status until the end of a fiscal year. In the event that USCIS determines that it is necessary to increase the number of registrations that will correspond to the upper limit for issuing H-1B visas or the distribution of benefits, USCIS will make an additional choice of registrations held in reserve.

Denied / Denied: this means that the same registrant or representative filed more than one registration on behalf of the applicant for the same financial year. Such registrations are considered invalid.

Potential applicants, including those eligible for benefits, must be notified of registration in Selected status in order to be eligible to properly apply for an H-1B visa within the 2021 fiscal year limit. Registrants and representatives will not be notified until the end of the fiscal year if they are not selected. Not selected, but not rejected registration will remain in the Submitted status.

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