{"id":991007,"date":"2026-02-10T09:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991007"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:48:06","slug":"h-1b-2027-schedule-uscis-finalises-registration-timeline-introduces-wage-based-lottery-change-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/h-1b-2027-schedule-uscis-finalises-registration-timeline-introduces-wage-based-lottery-change-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B 2027 schedule: USCIS finalises registration timeline, introduces wage-based lottery change \u2013 What it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the registration schedule for the H-1B visa programme for the 2027 financial year. The online registration system will open at noon (Eastern Time) on March 4, 2026, and will close at noon on March 19, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Employers or their authorised lawyers must submit registrations through a new \u201corganisational\u201d myUSCIS account. Individual accounts can no longer be used. Each registration will cost US$215, the same fee as last year. USCIS plans to announce lottery results by March 31 so that selected employers can file full petitions in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the registration schedule for the H-1B visa programme for the 2027 financial year. The online registration system will open at noon (Eastern Time) on March 4, 2026, and will close at noon on March 19, 2026. Employers or their authorised lawyers must submit registrations through a new \u201corganisational\u201d myUSCIS account. Individual accounts can no longer be used. Each registration will cost US$215, the same fee as last year. USCIS plans to announce lottery results by March 31 so that selected employers can file full petitions in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}