The initial registration period for H-1B visas subject to the maximum regulatory amount of fiscal year 2026 begins on March 7

Today, the United States citizenship and immigration service announced that the initial registration period for H-1B visas subject to the maximum regulatory amount of fiscal year 2026 It will open at noon, east time, on March 7, 2025 and will run until noon, Eastern time, from March 24, 2025. During this period, possible petitioners and representatives must use an online USCIS account to electronically register each beneficiary for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each.

Possible H-1B visa petitioners subject to the maximum regulatory amount or their representatives must use an online USCIS account to electronically register each beneficiary for the selection process and pay the associated H-1B registration fee of $ 215 for each Registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary.

If you are an H-1B visas petition employer who does not have an online USCIS account, you must create an organizations account. If you are an H-1B visas petitioner employer who had an H-1B registration account for H-1B Visas Registration seasons of the 2021 to 2024 fiscal years, but did not use the account for fiscal year 2025, its existing account will become an account for organizations after its next login. People who register for the first time can create an account at any time. You can find additional information and resources about organizations, including a link to step -by -step videos, on the frequently asked questions page for organizations. These frequent questions will be updated with the 2026 fiscal year information before the start of the initial registration period.

Representatives can add customers to their accounts at any time, but both representatives and registrants must wait until the March 7 To enter the beneficiary’s information and send the record with the $ 215 rate. The selections are made after the initial registration period is closed, so there is no requirement to register the day the initial registration period opens.

The maximum regulatory amount of H-1B visas of fiscal year 2026 will use the selection process centered on the beneficiary that was launched in fiscal year 2025. According to this process, the records are selected by a single beneficiary instead of by registration. If we receive records from sufficient unique beneficiaries before March 24we will randomly select the unique beneficiaries and send selection notifications through the user online USCIS accounts. If we do not receive records of sufficient unique beneficiaries, all the records of unique beneficiaries that were correctly sent in the initial registration period will be selected. We intend to notify before March 31 the possible petitioners and representatives whose accounts have at least one selected record.

The United States Department of the Treasury approved a temporary increase in the daily limit of credit card transactions of $ 24,999.99 to $ 99,999.99 per day for the H-1B View season subject to the maximum regulatory amount of fiscal year 2026. This temporary increase responds to the volume of previous H-1B visas that exceeded the daily credit of the credit card. Transactions of more than $ 99,999.99 can be carried out through the Automated Compensation Chamber (ACH). The use of the ACH may require the payer to notify your bank in advance to eliminate any possible block of the ACH in your account. We will provide additional information before the start of the initial H-1B visas registration period.

A petition subject to the maximum regulatory amount of H-1B visas, including a request for a beneficiary that is eligible for the exemption by advanced degree (also known as exemption by advanced or postgraduate degree), can only be presented by a petitioner whose record For the beneficiary appointed in the H-1B request, it has been selected in the H-1B Visas Registration process. You can obtain additional information on the electronic registration process on the H-1B Visas Electronic Registration Process.

Improvements in Accounts for Organizations for Fiscal Year 2026

For fiscal year 2026, we have made multiple improvements in the client experience for organizations and representatives accounts for the presentation of H-1B requests. These improvements include:

• The ability of legal assistants to work with more than one legal representative. A legal assistant can now accept invitations of multiple accounts of legal representatives, which will allow him a single legal assistant account;
• A simpler way for legal representatives to add legal assistants to the company’s clients;
• Complete previously certain fields of form I-129 from selected H-1B records; and
• The ability to prepare an H-1B beneficiary data sheet and load information to previously complete the data in H-1B records.

These improvements will be available before the start of the initial registration period.