OnFebruary 28, 2022, USCIS announced that they received a sufficientnumber of petitions to reach the 65,000 H-1B regular cap and 20,000 H-1Bmaster’s cap, for fiscal year 2022 (October 2021 to October 2022). It is important to note, this announcementis for registrations submitted in March 2021. New registrations for fiscal year 2023 (October 2022 to October 2023)can be submitted.
Forall non-selected cases, the attorney of record and petitioner should havereceived a non-selection notification through the registration on the USCISwebsite. The status for registrations properly submitted, but not selected,will state: Not Selected: not eligible to file an H-1B cap petition based onthis registration.
USCISwill continue to accept H-1B cap exempt petitions and H-1B petitions forworkers that have previously been counted against the cap.