{"id":2984,"date":"2021-02-05T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2021-02-05T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:27:59","slug":"uscis-fy2022-cap-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/uscis-fy2022-cap-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Announces FY 2022 H-1B Cap Electronic Registration Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is delaying the effective date of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTAyMDUuMzQ3MjQ3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy51c2Npcy5nb3YvbmV3cy9uZXdzLXJlbGVhc2VzL3VzY2lzLW1vZGlmaWVzLWgtMWItc2VsZWN0aW9uLXByb2Nlc3MtdG8tcHJpb3JpdGl6ZS13YWdlcyJ9.cq3ngp4aCAo8-WNh5xO5vFZI5aYAY--lQVWlQhFMS0s\/s\/771145039\/br\/97149816552-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B Selection Process final rule<\/a>\u00a0until\u00a0Dec. 31, 2021. What this means is that USCIS will apply the regulations currently in place (i.e. random\u00a0selection) to the initial registration period, and, any subsequent registration period for the FY\u00a02022 registration process\u00a0that takes place before Dec. 31, 2021<\/p>\n<p>USCIS also announced on February 5, 2021 that the registration\u202fperiod for\u202fthe fiscal year\u202f(FY)\u202f2022\u202fH-1B\u202fcap\u202fwill open\u202fon March 9, 2021 at 12:00pm\u202fEastern and will run through March 25, 2021 at 12:00pm Eastern.\u202fProspective petitioners and representatives will be able to fill out\u202fpetitioner and\u202fbeneficiary information and submit registrations for the H-1B cap season during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective H-1B cap-subject petitioners or their representatives will need to use a\u202fmyUSCIS\u202fonline account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated $10 H-1B registration fee for each\u202fregistration submitted on behalf of each\u202fbeneficiary. Prospective petitioners or their representatives will be able to\u202fsubmit registrations for\u202fmultiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Each successfully submitted registration will receive a\u202f confirmation number that can be used\u202fto track registrations.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS will randomly select registrations and send selection notifications via users\u2019\u00a0myUSCIS\u00a0online accounts by March 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>An H-1B cap-subject petition may only be filed by a petitioner whose registration for that beneficiary was selected in the H-1B registration process.<\/p>\n<p>USCIS has also provided further instructions about the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMTAyMDUuMzQ3MjQ3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy51c2Npcy5nb3Yvd29ya2luZy1pbi10aGUtdW5pdGVkLXN0YXRlcy90ZW1wb3Jhcnktd29ya2Vycy9oLTFiLXNwZWNpYWx0eS1vY2N1cGF0aW9ucy1hbmQtZmFzaGlvbi1tb2RlbHMvaC0xYi1lbGVjdHJvbmljLXJlZ2lzdHJhdGlvbi1wcm9jZXNzIn0.uJR8P7aS0Bu5Ot8FO4gJ2q_Nv_9dhalEGsqUSrjD7fM\/s\/771145039\/br\/97149816552-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B Electronic Registration Process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SW Law Group will keep you updated about any further developments regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is delaying the effective date of the\u00a0H-1B Selection Process final rule\u00a0until\u00a0Dec. 31, 2021. What this means is that USCIS will apply the regulations currently in place (i.e. random\u00a0selection) to the initial registration period, and, any subsequent registration period for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17,14,8,9,11,38,10,41],"tags":[66,44,60],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}