H-1B Visa Lottery Completed for Fiscal Year 2026, USCIS Says

March 31, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

US Citizenship and Immigration Services has notified winners of the annual H-1B lottery that they can move forward with petitions for the specialty occupation visas.

The agency said Monday that it received enough electronic registrations from employers by a March 24 deadline to meet the fiscal year 2026 cap of 85,000 visas.

This year’s registration period was the first since USCIS imposed new registration fees of $215. The agency has not released the total number of H-1B lottery entries submitted this year.


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