Prospective applicants or their representatives will be able to submit registration for multiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit and store the draft registration before final payment and submission of each registration.
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- US officials said registration for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2023 will begin on March 1.
- Successful applicants will be selected at random by March 31 and notified online.
- “We wish to notify account holders by March 31,” USCIS said in a statement.
The US Federal Immigration Agency said on Sunday that registration for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2023 will begin on March 1. Successful applicants will be selected at random by March 31 and notified online.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a statement that the initial registration period for the Fiscal Year 2023 H-1B cap will open at noon eastern on March 1 and run until noon eastern on March 18, 2022.
During this period, potential petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registration using the online H-1B registration system, the agency said in a statement on Friday.
“If we receive enough registrations by March 18, we will randomly select registrations and send selection notifications through users’ myUSCIS online accounts,” USCIS said in the statement. We intend to notify account holders by March 31. “
As mandated by Congress, USCIS can issue a maximum of 65,000 H-1B visas a year. It can also issue another 20,000 H-1B visas to foreign students who have completed higher studies from a US university in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.
USCIS will provide a confirmation number for each registration submitted for the FY 2023 H-1B cap. This number will be used only to track the registration and not to track the applicant’s case status in Case Status Online.
Potential H-1B cap-subject petitioners or their representatives must use a myUSCIS online account to register each beneficiary and pay the corresponding USD 10 H-1B registration fee for each registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary Will happen.
Potential applicants submitting their own registration (US employers and US agents, collectively known as “registrants”) will use a “registrant” account. The registrants will be able to create new accounts from noon eastern on 21st February.
Representatives can add customers to their accounts at any time, but both representatives and registrants will have to wait until March 1 to enter beneficiary information and submit registration with fees.
Prospective applicants or their representatives will be able to submit registration for multiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit and store the draft registration before final payment and submission of each registration.
An H-1B cap-subject petition, which includes a petition for a beneficiary eligible for an advanced degree exemption, can only be filed by a petitioner whose registration for the beneficiary named in the H-1B petition is H- was selected in 1B. registration process.
The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specific occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire thousands of employees every year from countries like India and China.
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