2024 H-1B cap initial registration period opens on March 1: Dates and other details – Times of India

The initial registration for the 2024 H-1B cap will be open from March 1-17, 2023 as per a notice by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registrations using the online H-1B registration system.
As per the notice, USCIS will assign a confirmation number to each registration submitted for the FY 2024 H-1B cap. This number will be used solely to track registrations; applicants and representatives cannot use this number to track their case status in Case Status Online.
Applicable fees
Prospective H-1B cap-subject petitioners or their representatives are required to use a myUSCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated $10 H-1B registration fee for each registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary. Prospective petitioners submitting their own registrations (US employers and US agents, collectively known as “registrants”) will use a “registrant” account. Registrants will be able to create new accounts beginning at noon Eastern on February 21.
Representatives may add clients to their accounts at any time, but both representatives and registrants must wait until March 1 to enter beneficiary information and submit the registration with the $10 fee. Prospective petitioners or their representatives will be able to submit registrations for multiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit, and store draft registrations prior to final payment and submission of each registration.
If USCIS receives enough registrations by March 17, it will randomly select registrations and send selection notifications via users’ myUSCIS online accounts. If it does not receive enough registrations, all registrations that were properly submitted in the initial registration period will be selected. “We intend to notify account holders by March 31,” says the notice.

Temporary increase in daily credit card transaction limit
The US Department of Treasury has approved a temporary increase in the daily credit card transaction limit from $24,999.99 to $39,999.99 per day for the FY 2024 H-1B cap season. This temporary increase is in response to the volume of previous H-1B registrations that exceeded the daily credit card limit. Additional information will be provided before the start of the initial H-1B registration period.
An H-1B cap-subject petition, including a petition for a beneficiary who is eligible for the advanced degree exemption, may only be filed by a petitioner whose registration for the beneficiary named in the H-1B petition was selected in the H-1B registration process.
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