USCIS Received Over 300K H-1B Registrations for FY2022

After this yr’s H-1B registration and subsequent lottery, many immigration practitioners lamented the seemingly low choice charges for his or her consumer’s circumstances, particularly in comparison with years previous. Grasp’s cap circumstances, which typically carried round a 40% probability of choice, appeared significantly affected. In the present day’s announcement from USCIS sheds some mild on these abysmal choice charges, because the company confirmed that they obtained over 308,000 H-1B registrations this yr!

 

The digital registration course of for H-1Bs was supposed to make the H-1B lottery extra streamlined and environment friendly, and the relative ease of the method (in comparison with the earlier time consuming and costly “season” of submitting full H-1B petitions) appears to have made extra employers extra keen to doubtlessly make use of H-1B staff. FY2020 noticed USCIS obtain over 200,000 H-1B petitions; FY2021 (the primary yr of the digital registration system) noticed that quantity soar to over 274,000 registrations, and this yr’s numbers of registrations elevated nonetheless, regardless of the financial challenges attributable to COVID-19. One can solely think about what number of registrations can be submitted in subsequent years because the economic system continues to get better from the pandemic.

 

Copied from USCIS:

 

FY 2022 H-1B Cap Registration Course of Replace

The H-1B cap digital registration course of was once more well-received by customers, who offered a excessive satisfaction rating with the system for FY 2022 (4.87 out of 5). We obtained 308,613 H-1B registrations through the preliminary registration interval and chosen 87,500 registrations projected as wanted to succeed in the FY 2022 numerical allocations. The registrations had been submitted by greater than 37,000 potential petitioners and roughly 48% of all registrations requested consideration underneath the superior diploma exemption.

Per regulation, USCIS makes use of historic knowledge associated to approvals, denials, revocations, and different related elements to calculate the variety of registrations wanted to satisfy the H-1B cap for a given fiscal yr. Primarily based on historic knowledge, the preliminary projected variety of registrations required to satisfy the numerical limitations for FY 2022 was lower than the preliminary projected variety of registrations required for FY 2021.

For FY 2021, we obtained 274,237 H-1B registrations and initially chosen 106,100 registrations projected as wanted to succeed in the FY 2021 numerical allocations. We carried out a second choice in August 2020 of an extra 18,315 registrations as a result of low submitting quantity from the preliminary choice. This resulted in a complete of 124,415 chosen registrations.

We proceed to watch petition submitting charges and can decide, after the submitting interval closes, whether or not we might want to choose further registrations to succeed in the FY 2022 H-1B numerical allocations.

For extra details about the H-1B program, go to our H-1B Specialty Occupations webpage.

 

 

 

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