The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that employers who want to file H-1B visa petitions on behalf of foreign worker beneficiaries for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 visa allotment can begin registering for the visa lottery on March 1. The registration period for the upcoming FY 2024 (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024) H-1B visa lottery will begin at noon Eastern time on March 1, 2023, and run through noon Eastern time on March 17, 2023. During this roughly two-week registration period, any employer who wants to formally petition for an H-1B visa on behalf of a foreign national for employment beginning on October 1, 2023, must register for the lottery online and pay a $10 registration fee per prospective beneficiary. If selected in the lottery, the employer is then eligible to file an H-1B petition for the beneficiary named in the selected registration.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.