United States completes second lottery round for H-1B visa
USCIS has completed random selection of applicants for H-1B visa, a statement released by them said. On July 29, USCIS had announced a second round of random lottery selection for H-1B visas for the fiscal 2024 (year ended September 30, 2024). «We now have randomly selected, from the remaining FY 2024 registrations properly submitted, a sufficient number of registrations projected as needed to reach the cap, and have notified all prospective petitioners with selected registrations from this round of selection that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration,» the statement said.
In March, USCIS conducted an initial random selection on properly submitted electronic registrations for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap, including for beneficiaries eligible for the advanced degree exemption. Only those petitioners with selected registrations for FY 2024 are eligible to file H-1B cap-subject petitions. The initial filing period for those with selected registrations for FY 2024 was from April 1, 2023, through June 30, 2023.
An H-1B cap-subject petition must be properly filed at the correct service center and within the filing period indicated on the relevant registration selection notice. The period for filing the H-1B cap-subject petition will be at least 90 days. Online filing is not available for H-1B petitions, so petitioners filing H-1B petitions must do so by paper.
Petitioners must include a printed copy of the applicable registration selection notice with the FY 2024 H-1B cap-subject petition. This was not the first time that USCIS announced a second lottery for H1-B visa. The US held multiple lotteries for the first time for fiscal 2022, but
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