US: H-1B Electronic Registration Opens Today, March 9, at 12:00 PM EST

The FY 2022 H-1B electronic registration period opens today, March 9, at 12:00 pm EST. Registration will remain open until March 25, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST.

This year is the second year that US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is using an electronic registration process.

Registrants and petitioners will need to create a new myUSCIS online account if they don’t have one already. Those with an existing H-1B registrant account are not required to create a new one.

Petitioners must submit an electronic registration for every prospective H-1B cap-subject candidate during the electronic registration period. Registrations must be completed through the myUSCIS online account. A $10 filing fee is required for every registration.

As a reminder, registrations cannot be submitted after the registration period closes on March 25, 2021. Priority is not given to early submissions.

After the registration period ends, USCIS will use a random lottery selection process to select registrations if there are more registrations than available H-1B visas. USCIS will send registration selection notifications to registrants and their representatives through their myUSCIS accounts no later than March 31, 2021.

Petitioners whose registrations are selected may file full H-1B petitions between April 1, 2021 and June 30, 2021.