<p>The initial registration period for the 2024 H-1B visas for skilled professionals will open from March 1 to March 17, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced.</p>.<p>Prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registrations using the online H-1B registration system during this period.</p>.<p>The USCIS will assign a confirmation number to each registration submitted for the FY 2024 H-1B cap, which can be used to track registrations. The number, however, cannot be used to track one's case status in Case Status Online, the USCIS said in a release.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/us-putting-every-ounce-of-energy-to-eliminate-visa-wait-times-in-india-1182179.html" target="_blank">US 'putting every ounce of energy to eliminate visa wait times in India'</a></strong></p>.<p>All prospective H-1B cap-subject petitioners are required to use a myUSCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process.</p>.<p>They also need to pay a $10 fee for each registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary.</p>.<p>Registrants, i.e., US employers and agents will use a registrant account and they will be able to create new accounts from February 21.</p>.<p>"Representatives may add clients to their accounts at any time, but both representatives and registrants must wait until March 1 to enter beneficiary information and submit the registration with the $10 fee," the USCIS statement read.</p>.<p>It further said that prospective petitioners or their representatives will be able to submit registrations for multiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit, and store draft registrations prior to final payment and submission of each registration.</p>.<p>The USCIS will randomly select registrations and send selection notifications via users' myUSCIS online accounts if they receive enough registrations by March 17.</p>.<p>In case it does not receive enough registrations, the USCIS said: "All registrations that were properly submitted in the initial registration period will be selected. We intend to notify account holders by March 31".</p>.<p>The US Department of Treasury has approved a temporary increase in the daily credit card transaction limit from $24,999.99 to $39,999.99 per day for the FY 2024 H-1B cap season. This temporary increase is in response to the volume of previous H-1B registrations that exceeded the daily credit card limit, the USCIS said, adding that additional information will be provided before the start of the initial H-1B registration period.</p>.<p>The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant work visa that allows US employers to hire foreign workers in fields such as IT, finance, engineering, etc.</p>.<p>In fiscal 2021, Indians bagged the highest number of H1B visas - over 74 per cent of the allotments.</p>.<p>Out of 4.07 lakh H-1B visas approved by the USCIS, 3.01 lakh were allotted to Indians whereas, 50,000 Chinese received the visas.</p>
<p>The initial registration period for the 2024 H-1B visas for skilled professionals will open from March 1 to March 17, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced.</p>.<p>Prospective petitioners and representatives will be able to complete and submit their registrations using the online H-1B registration system during this period.</p>.<p>The USCIS will assign a confirmation number to each registration submitted for the FY 2024 H-1B cap, which can be used to track registrations. The number, however, cannot be used to track one's case status in Case Status Online, the USCIS said in a release.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/us-putting-every-ounce-of-energy-to-eliminate-visa-wait-times-in-india-1182179.html" target="_blank">US 'putting every ounce of energy to eliminate visa wait times in India'</a></strong></p>.<p>All prospective H-1B cap-subject petitioners are required to use a myUSCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process.</p>.<p>They also need to pay a $10 fee for each registration submitted on behalf of each beneficiary.</p>.<p>Registrants, i.e., US employers and agents will use a registrant account and they will be able to create new accounts from February 21.</p>.<p>"Representatives may add clients to their accounts at any time, but both representatives and registrants must wait until March 1 to enter beneficiary information and submit the registration with the $10 fee," the USCIS statement read.</p>.<p>It further said that prospective petitioners or their representatives will be able to submit registrations for multiple beneficiaries in a single online session. Through the account, they will be able to prepare, edit, and store draft registrations prior to final payment and submission of each registration.</p>.<p>The USCIS will randomly select registrations and send selection notifications via users' myUSCIS online accounts if they receive enough registrations by March 17.</p>.<p>In case it does not receive enough registrations, the USCIS said: "All registrations that were properly submitted in the initial registration period will be selected. We intend to notify account holders by March 31".</p>.<p>The US Department of Treasury has approved a temporary increase in the daily credit card transaction limit from $24,999.99 to $39,999.99 per day for the FY 2024 H-1B cap season. This temporary increase is in response to the volume of previous H-1B registrations that exceeded the daily credit card limit, the USCIS said, adding that additional information will be provided before the start of the initial H-1B registration period.</p>.<p>The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant work visa that allows US employers to hire foreign workers in fields such as IT, finance, engineering, etc.</p>.<p>In fiscal 2021, Indians bagged the highest number of H1B visas - over 74 per cent of the allotments.</p>.<p>Out of 4.07 lakh H-1B visas approved by the USCIS, 3.01 lakh were allotted to Indians whereas, 50,000 Chinese received the visas.</p>