H-1B Cap Season Registration

The H-1B Cap Registration period will run from Friday, March 7, 2025 at 12pm Eastern Time to Monday, March 24, 2025 at 12pm Eastern Time. Cap-subject employers seeking to file an H-1B petition for a foreign national employee(s) starting in Fiscal Year 2026 must create an online account and electronically register their employee(s) on the website during the registration period. Employers should submit their registration(s) as soon as possible given the registration website’s technical issues in previous years.

After the registration period ends, USCIS will run the H-1B cap lottery and will notify employers of the results via their online account. In previous years, USCIS has notified employers of the lottery results before the H-1B cap filing period window began on April 1.