Employers seeking to sponsor candidates for initial H-1B sponsorship (commonly known as "H-1B CAP") should begin preparing for the H-1B electronic registration process. Although the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has not announced the exact dates for electronic registration, previous registration periods have opened for three weeks during March, with employers notified of their selections shortly after the registration period has closed.
Here is a non-exhaustive summary of the H-1B CAP registration process:
During the open registration period, employer registrants must create an online account with USCIS and register both the employer's corporate information (if not completed previously) as well as the information of the employee for whom the employer will sponsor. USCIS will assign each employee a unique registration number.
USCIS requires a $10 non-refundable fee for each employee registration submitted, with payment available only through https://www.pay.gov/public/home.
For each employee to be sponsored, employers must provide the employee's legal name, gender, date of birth, country of birth and citizenship, and passport number, and must state whether the beneficiary has a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution of higher education (making the beneficiary eligible for the advanced degree exemption).
At the time the electronic registration is submitted, the employer's authorized signatory must certify, under the penalty of perjury,...
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