US Citizenship and Immigration Services will hold a second random lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas to meet an annual cap for fiscal year 2024, the agency announced Thursday.
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—many of them indicating possible attempts to game the lottery system.
In its announcement Thursday, USCIS said the agency determined that another lottery is needed to meet the fiscal year 2024 cap.
USCIS will select additional registrations ...
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