Organizational Accounts Frequently Asked Questions

 As a legal representative, you can work with paralegals by inviting them in your online account to join your legal team. Paralegal accounts are being enhanced for FY 2026 cap season so that a paralegal can be invited to join  more than one legal team. However, each legal team can only have one legal representative.

At this time, we do not have an application programming interface (API) that allows you to use third-party software to complete forms using the USCIS online platform. For more information on available APIs, please visit developer.uscis.gov.

Company Groups can collaborate with more than one Legal Team, whether the Representatives are in the same law firm or different law firms.

Suppose your law firm has 5 attorneys who file H-1B petitions for the same company. The Administrator over the Company Group could invite each of the 5 attorneys to collaborate by sending individual invitations. This would result in collaborating with 5 different Legal Teams. Alternatively, each representative could send an invitation to collaborate to the Administrator. This also would result in collaborating with 5 Legal Teams.

One important thing to remember is that each Legal Team will not be able to see the work performed by other Legal Teams.

No. If you plan to file H-1B registrations and Form I-129 H-1B petitions online on behalf of your company client, you must either:

• Add your company client to your Representative online account, which will send an invitation to the client to collaborate; or
• Your Company Administrator client must add you as a Representative, which will send an invitation to you to collaborate with the company group.

The invitation process replaces the previous representative passcode exchange that was used to connect representative and applicant accounts to support representative-client collaboration.

The Administrator needs to withdraw the Form G-28 from all cases that the original Representative is associated with. Then, in the My Representatives tab, the Administrator can remove the Representative entirely from their Company Group, if they wish. The Administrator will then add a new Representative by selecting, “Add a Representative.” The new Representative will need to file a standalone Form G-28 for any existing cases on which they will represent the organization.

Any Legal Team can prepare online Form I-129 H-1B petitions for selected beneficiaries on behalf of a company client. However, only the Legal Team that prepared and submitted the H-1B registration for the selected beneficiary will be able to see the selection notice (if they are still the attorney of record for that company client with a filed Form G-28). If a new Legal Team is invited to collaborate after H-1B registration selection notices are sent out, the company client will need to provide the relevant information about the selected beneficiary to the Legal Team outside of the organizational account platform.

The Legal Representative can collaborate with multiple company groups. The company would need to have an individual at each office create an organizational account and establish themself as the Administrator. The Administrator would then invite the Legal Representative to collaborate. The attorney would then be able to send the registrations to the Administrator for review and submission.