USCIS Will Conduct H-1B Second Random Selection 2024

US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on July 27, 2023, that they will hold a second random lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas to meet an annual cap for fiscal year 2024.

An initial lottery was held in March for the visas, which are especially popular in fields like tech and engineering. USCIS subsequently announced that it had received more than 780,000 employer registrations.

In its announcement on Thursday, July 27, 2023, USCIS said the agency determined that another lottery is needed to meet the fiscal year 2024 cap.

USCIS will select additional registrations from those previously submitted electronically. Only registrants selected in the lottery process are eligible to move forward with H-1B petitions.

Selected registrations will have their myUSCIS accounts updated. They have not indicated how many are available or when the selections will occur; only that it will happen “soon”.

 For more information, please visit USCIS website USCIS Will Conduct Second Random Selection from Previously Submitted FY 2024 H-1B Cap Registrations | USCIS

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