US Citizenship and Immigration Services completed a second lottery to meet the 2024 fiscal year cap for H-1B specialty occupation visas, the agency announced Tuesday.
Employers with selected registrations are eligible to move ahead with visa petitions. Only those that registered by a March deadline were eligible for the second lottery.
The agency received more than 780,000 employer registrations this year for H-1B visas, which are in especially high demand in the tech and engineering sectors. That number eclipsed the previous high of 483,000 in the prior year, but USCIS said that it suggested attempts to game the system.
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