H-1B Initial Electronic Registration Selection Process Completed

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USCIS has announced that the initial H-1B Electronic Registration selection process for FY 2022 Cap Season has been completed.  This includes both the H-1B Cap and Master’s Cap. 

Those who registered for the selection process will now see one of the following statuses for their registration on their online USCIS accounts for each beneficiary registered:

  • Submitted: The registration has been submitted and is eligible for selection. If the initial selection process has been completed, this registration remains eligible, unless subsequently invalidated, for selection in any subsequent selections for the fiscal year for which it was submitted.

  • Selected: Selected to file an H-1B cap petition.

  • Denied: Multiple registrations were submitted by or on behalf of the same registrant for the same beneficiary. If denied as a duplicate registration, all registrations submitted by or on behalf of the same registrant for this beneficiary for the fiscal year are invalid.

  • Invalidated-Failed Payment: A registration was submitted but the payment method was declined, not reconciled, or otherwise invalid.

Those with a selected registration may file their H-1B petitions with USCIS starting April 1, 2021.   Per USCIS’s announcement, only petitioners with selected registrations may file H-1B cap-subject petitions for FY 2022, and only for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration notice.  The period for filing these H-1B petitions will be at least 90 days.  A printed copy of the selection notice must be submitted with the petition. 

Cap-subject H-1B petitions must still establish the petitioner’s and beneficiary’s eligibility for the H-1B visa category at the time the petition is filed and the evidence required by the applicable regulations must still be submitted.

If you registered for the H-1B Electronic Selection Process yourself and would like assistance with the petition now that you have been selected, please contact Iandoli Desai & Cronin (info@iandoli.com) for assistance preparing the H-1B by June 30, 2021.