H-1B cap-gap benefits only attach upon filing the H-1B cap petition, not upon filing the H-1B registration. Therefore, only those individuals selected through the H-1B registration process who have an H-1B cap petition, requesting an October 1 or later start date within the current fiscal year, timely-filed on their behalf will have their duration of status, and any applicable employment authorization, automatically extended until April 1 of the next year, unless the petition has been rejected, denied, revoked or withdrawn prior to that date. The F-1 student must stop working on April 1 of the next year if the H-1B cap-subject petition has yet to be adjudicated.