The initial registration period for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2026 will commence on March 7 and close on March 24, a US agency has said.<\/p>\n
Indians are the main beneficiaries of the H-1B visas, which bring in the best of the talent and brains from across the world. Highly skilled professionals from India walk away with the overwhelming number of H-1B visas – which is Congressional mandated 65,0000 every year and another 20,000 for those who received higher education from the US.<\/p>\n
What is an H-1B Visa<\/strong><\/p>\n The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.<\/p>\n Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.<\/p>\n What is the registration fee for H-1B Visa<\/strong><\/p>\n The registration fee is for H-1B Visa is USD 215.<\/p>\n The initial registration period for the most sought-after H-1B visas for foreign guest workers for fiscal 2026 will open at noon Eastern Time (10:30 pm IST) on March 7 and run through noon Eastern Time (10:30 pm IST) on March 24, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n During this period, prospective petitioners and representatives must use a USCIS online account to register each beneficiary electronically for the selection process and pay the associated registration fee for each beneficiary, it said.<\/p>\n The USCIS further said that the FY 2026 H-1B cap will use the beneficiary-centric selection process launched in FY 2025. The US fiscal begins on October 1.<\/p>\n \u200bThe initial registration period for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2026 will commence on March 7 and close on March 24, a US agency has said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The initial registration period for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2026 will commence on March 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":54065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",650,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",640,394,false],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",640,394,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",650,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF.jpeg",650,400,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c4qfcckk_new-york-generic_625x300_13_August_20-6L12ZF-590x400.jpeg",590,400,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}