The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will
institute a new registration tool for Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B
cap-subject petitions. The registration period will run from March
1, 2020 noon EST through March 20, 2020 noon EST. During this
period, employers, and their attorneys, will pay a non-refundable
$10 fee per beneficiary and will input each beneficiary's
information through an account set up on the https://my.uscis.gov/ online portal. Each
registration will require basic information on the employer (legal
name, FEIN, office address, and contact information), the
beneficiary (legal name, gender, date of birth, country of birth
and citizenship, and passport number), as well as whether the
beneficiary will qualify for the Advanced Degree Cap exemption.
Employers will be able to register up to 250 beneficiaries per
session and pay a combined registration fee for all beneficiaries
through the portal. Duplicate registrations by the same employer
for the same
