Second-Round Lottery For H1-B Visa Soon: All You Need To Know About It

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require technical expertise.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Thursday that it will hold a second round of random lottery selection for H-1B visa for fiscal 2024, starting October 1, 2023. The initial lottery, held in March this year, was randomly selected from correctly submitted electronic registrations for the yearly cap. The filing timeframe for the selected registrations was allotted from April 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023. USCIS said that candidates with approved registrations will have their myUSCIS account updated.

"We recently determined that we would need to select additional registrations to reach the FY 2024 numerical allocations. Soon, we will select additional registrations from previously submitted electronic registrations using a random selection process," the agency said on its website.

"We will announce once we have completed this second selection process 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," it added.