India, March 25 -- The H1-B registration window for 2026 closed on Monday, March 24. Now, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will notify prospective petitioners and representatives whose accounts have at least one registration. The deadline for this process is set at March 31.

For cap-subject H-1B petitions, employers must first register electronically during a designated period. If selected in the lottery, USCIS notifies petitioners by March 31, allowing them to file Form I-129 within a 90-day window (usually April 1 to June 30). If you're not notified by March 31, 2025, it likely means:

No notification by March 31 typically means your registration wasn't chosen in the H-1B lottery. The USCIS uses a random s...