Article: Its Official Now: USCIS Issues Notice Of Implementation Of H-1B Registration Process For FY2021 By Rabindra Singh

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<div dir=”ltr” class=”reader-article-content”><p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today the implementation of the H–1B registration process for H–1B cap-subject petitions. Here are important takeaways:</p><ul><li>The initial H–1B petition registration period will begin on <u>Sunday, March 1, 2020</u>. &nbsp;USCIS intends to close the initial registration period on Friday, March 20, 2020, and will announce the actual end date of the initial registration period on its website at <a href=”http://www.uscis.gov/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow noopener”>www.uscis.gov</a>. &nbsp;</li><li>&nbsp;Employers and authorized representatives <u>may start setting up their registration accounts in advance</u> of the registration period opening. USCIS will post the date that employers and authorized representatives may start setting up accounts on its website.</li><li>A petitioner or its authorized representative <u>must electronically submit a separate registration</u> request naming each individual it seeks to petition for a cap-subject H–1B. </li><li>A petitioner may only submit <u>one registration per beneficiary</u> in any fiscal year. If a petitioner submits more than one registration for the same beneficiary in the same fiscal year, USCIS will consider all registrations filed by that petitioner <u>for that beneficiary</u> for that fiscal year invalid.</li><li>USCIS <u>will send notices electronically</u> to all registrants with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H–1B cap-subject petition on behalf of the individual named in the notice <u>within the filing period indicated on the notice</u>.</li><li>The account holder <u>who submitted the selected registration</u> will receive notification via email <u>or</u> text message stating that an action has been added to their account, and they will have to log in to see the full notice. </li><li>USCIS intends to notify registrants with selected registrations from the initial registration period <u>no later than March 31, 2020</u>.</li></ul></div>
<p>This post originally appeared on <a href=”https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-official-now-uscis-issues-notice-implementation-h-1b-singh/” target=”_blank”>Rabindra Singh, Attorney at Immigration Attorneys, LLP</a>. Reprinted with permission.</p>

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<b>Rabindra Singh</b> – Selected by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star”, Rabindra (Rabi) Singh is an Attorney in the
Chicago, Illinois, office of Immigration Attorneys, LLP. From individuals to startups to
multinational corporations, he regularly advises clients on complex employment- and family-
based immigration matters in a variety of industries, with a primary focus on the Information
Technology, Pharmaceutical, and Financial Services. Besides representing individual and
corporate clients in the Federal District Courts on matters involving immigration and nationality
law, he regularly represents clients before various agencies of the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the U.S. Department of
State (DOS). He can be contacted at: rsingh@immattyllp.com

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