H-1B Lottery Dates and New Policies Announced
USCIS will run the Fiscal Year 2025 H-1B Lottery Online Registration from noon ET on March 6 until noon ET on March 22.
A final DHS regulation that will change the H-1B cap registration system to a beneficiary-centric system will be in effect for the FY 2025 H-1B cap registration period,.
Under the new system, if a beneficiary is selected, each potential employer that filed a registration on that beneficiary’s behalf will be notified and eligible to file an H-1B cap petition for the beneficiary. By changing the selection process in this way, USCIS hopes to reduce the incentive for entities to collaborate to submit multiple registrations on behalf of the same foreign national and thereby unfairly increase a foreign national’s chance of selection in the H-1B cap lottery.
The final rule also includes anti-fraud measures that enhance DHS’s ability to deny and revoke H petitions based on false statements or invalid registrations.
USCIS has also announced that the agency’s new organizational account system will go live at noon ET on February 28.
The new organizational account system will allow employers to enter H-1B registrations and file H-1B petitions through the USCIS website. Petitions of all types may be filed including H-1B cap, extensions, amendments, changes of employer, or cap-exempt petitions.
