Inexpensive Pre-Registration is now available for $500 via E&M Mayock.

Please complete our H-1B Inquiry Form if you would like us to move forward with H-1B Visa Cap Pre-Registration.

2022 H-1B Visa Cap Season Details

Luck-based USCIS Selection Lottery in March 2022

USCIS will randomly select the number of registrations needed to reach the H-1B allocation as soon as the initial registration period closes in late March 2022.

Employers whose registrations are selected in the lottery will be eligible to file a cap-subject H-1B visa petition starting in April 2022 ONLY for the foreign national Candidate named in the selected registration.

USCIS will NOT consider a cap-subject H-1B visa petition as properly filed UNLESS it is based on a valid registration selection for the same beneficiary. Although Petitioners can register multiple foreign nationals during a single online submission, duplicate registrations by the same Petitioner for the same Beneficiary in the same year will be discarded.

In the past few years, the annual quota of 85,000 new H-1B visas was exhausted by the end of the filing window. Last year 308,613 registrations were submitted. More are expected this year.

The annual quota includes 20,000 H-1B visas which are set-aside for foreign workers who have completed a Masters degree [or higher] at a U.S. non-profit university. Based on previous H-1B cap experience, we predict that these graduates will have a significantly better chance of selection in the lottery.

Follow-on, additional lottery drawings after the initial March 2022 drawing are likely.

E&M Mayock H-1B Visa Pre-Registration Program

E&M Mayock has now begun accepting H-1B Visa Cap Pre-Registration cases for submission in March 2022.

Initial Attorney Review and Registration: $500

Employers and H-1B Visa Cap Prospective Employee Candidates will fill out basic online questionnaires to provide the information required for H-1B Cap Pre-Registration. If, after Attorney Review, there are no apparent legal issues, the case will be prepared for Pre-Registration submission. The USCIS $10 registration fee is included in the $500 E&M fee.

Full H-1B Visa Petition Preparation: $3,500 (Standard E&M Fee)

Once a candidate has been selected, the employer will have 3 months to file an H-1B visa petition with USCIS. E&M will complete this key aspect for our standard fee of $3,500 [plus costs]. Most petitions will be decided by the first possible start date – 1 October 2022. But others will languish. PP Premium Processing [$2,500 additional and optional] may be available; USCIS has yet to announce.

Employers: Send Us the Names of Your Candidates

Please let us know if you would like to move forward with H-1B Cap Pre-Registration.

Complete our H-1B Inquiry Form

Once we receive this information from you, we will send you instructions to start the case and an invoice for Initial Attorney Review and Registration: $500 [which includes the $10 USCIS fee].

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