H-1B Registration Tips For New Wage-Weighted Selection

By Jimmy Lai ( March 10, 2026, 5:18 PM EDT) -- The fiscal year 2027 H-1B cap registration window opened on March 4 and will remain open until March 19. This is the first registration window under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's final rule, effective Feb. 27, that replaced random lottery selection with a wage-weighted selection process.[1] The decisions practitioners make during this two-week window will follow their clients all the way through the petition life cycle....

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