July – August Second H1B lottery round, if required If the H1B cap is not filled from the first selection round, USCIS may conduct additional lottery selections to fill the annual quota. August – September Final decisions USCIS aims to complete the processing of most H1B petitions by the end...
The H1B visa application period is open for a limited window each year for those successful in the H1B lottery. The H1B registration window for the FY 2026 is March 24, 2025. Usually, the H1B application deadline is at the end of June, however, this can vary, and applicants should check...
H1B First Round Lottery FY 2024: USCIS said they conducted the first round H1B lottery for properly submitted H1B registration for FY 2024 cap for both regular and advanced degrees (masters) cap. Only those applicants selected in that first round were eligible to file the H1B petitions between ...
000. They selected 127,600 H1B registrations for FY 2023 season in the first round itself and there was never a need for them to run the second round or third round of the H1B lottery last year.
Additional Rounds of H1B Lottery If you are not selected in the first round of the H1B visa lottery, but have a valid petition, you will be placed into a pool of unselected applications. If the H1B visa cap is not reached from selections made in the first round, a second round will be...
Updates from August 5th, 2024. USCIS made an official press release today indicating that they completed the second round H1B lottery for the FY 2025 Season and notified everyone. They selected 14,534 Registrations as part of this second round. You can read more at article:H1B Second Round L...
If a third round H1B lottery were to happen for H1B 2024 season, it would likely happen towards the last week of November or early December 2023. The reason is historically, we only had H1B third round lottery once in FY 2022 and after that we did not see anything as such. You can ...
Below is the extra count of H1B registrations that USCIS selected in recent years for each of the H1B lottery rounds and for the total year that is more than the H1B cap of 85,000. Fiscal Year Initial Round Selected count Second Round Selected count Third Round Selected count Total Selected...
1. What is the H1B Visa Lottery? Random Selection? 2. Why do we have an H1B Visa Lottery? Is it mandatory to have a Lottery? 3. How many times does USCIS Conduct an H1B Lottery? First Round vs. Second Round? 4. H1B Lottery Process before Online Registration System 5. H1B Lottery...
H1B 2023 Lottery Results are out. On March 29th, USCIS Released an official press note indicating the same, But, they did not release any numbers. You can ReadUSCIS update – H1B 2023 Lottery First Round done, Summaryand previously shared details onH1B Visa 2023 Lottery Results with Sample ...