USCIS Completes Lottery Selection Process For H-1B FY2022 Cap

On March 30, 2021, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) provided the following updates on the H-1B cap registration process:

• USCIS received more electronic H-1B cap registrations than available H-1B numbers under the quota of 85,000 new H-1B filings, necessitating a lottery;
• USCIS has completed a random selection process from the properly filed registration submissions; and
• USCIS has completed notification for all selected registrations.

Employers and attorneys will need to log in to the USCIS registration portal in order to learn the status of each registration. Registrations will have one of the below statuses:

• Selected: “Selected” means that the registration was selected in the lottery. For selected registrations, employers will have 90 days to submit a complete H-1B petition to USCIS for adjudication. The H-1B petition filing window begins on April 1, 2021 and ends on June 30, 2021.