Today the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that it has received a sufficient number of FY 2021 H-1B Cap registrations to meet the annual H-1B quota. As such, they have run the random selection process and will notify petitioners with selected registrations by March 31, 2020. By this date, petitioners and representatives will be able to log into their myUSCIS.gov accounts to see the status of the registrations they submitted. Cases that have been selected will have their status updated to “Selected” and cases that have not been selected will continue to show as “Submitted” as USCIS has indicated that it will keep all registrations available and open until the end of the fiscal year and, in the event that additional visa numbers become available (due to denials, withdrawals, failure to file after selection), USCIS may go back in and randomly select additional cases for processing, though they have not provided additional details about that process at this time.
Note that USCIS will only indicate that a registration has been “denied” in the event that it has discovered a duplicate registration was submitted by the same registrant for the same beneficiary, or a payment method was declined and not reconciled.