JoSAA

The last date to fill and lock the choices in JoSAA counselling 2026 was June 11.

• Login to JoSAA Portal
• Access JoSAA Choice Filling Link
• Adding and Arranging the Choices
• Saving the Choices 
• Locking the Choice
• Printing the Choice List

You can update your nationality in the JoSAA portal from foreign national to Indian. Once the nationality status is changed, you will be eligible for seats in IITs under the GEN category only. If you have already been allocated a seat, it will be cancelled, and you will be considered for seat allocation in subsequent rounds (if any) under the OPEN category, provided you -

1. submit proof of Indian nationality, and
2. meet all other eligibility criteria for Indian nationals, including satisfying the JEE (Main) cut-off marks for qualifying for JEE (Advanced) in the GEN category.

You can update your nationality in the JoSAA portal from Indian to OCI/PIO card holder. After making this change, you will be eligible for seats in IITs under the GEN or GEN-PwD category only. If your currently allocated seat is not under the OPEN or OPEN-PwD category, it will be CANCELLED. You will then be considered for seat allocation in subsequent rounds (if any) under the OPEN category, provided you -

1. submit proof of a valid OCI/PIO card (issued before 04.03.2021).
2. meet all other eligibility criteria for qualifying for JEE (Advanced) in the GEN or GEN-PwD category.

If you do not have a valid UDID card indicating permanent disability and are seeking a seat in IITs through JoSAA, you must visit any of the IITs for physical verification, bringing a copy of your PwD certificate.

To accept a seat in JoSAA, log in to the JoSAA portal and view your seat allotment result. If you are satisfied with the allocated seat, proceed to accept it by paying the required seat acceptance fee online. Additionally, you may need to upload necessary documents for verification, depending on the institute's requirements.

The CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) Special Round counseling provides a chance to students who did not get a seat in JoSAA counseling. Students who registered for JoSAA counseling need not pay any further fee to join CSAB Special Round. The registration fee amount is INR 2,100 for general category students and INR 1,050 for SC/ST/PwD category students although unregistered applicants must pay the fee in case they did not participate in JoSAA counseling. CSAB Special Round serves to occupy open seats in NITs as well as IIITs and GFTIs.

Securing admission to the most coveted branches of top-tier IITs may be difficult if you have a SC category rank of 2800 in JEE Advanced because their cutoffs for SC candidates are usually substantially lower You might however have prospects in less-demanded disciplines or at more recent IITs.

For example, in the final round of seat distribution in 2024 the SC category closing ranks at IIT Bombay reached 3,506. This implies that some branches may have higher closing ranks even when elite branches like computer Science and engineering have far lower cutoffs.