On January 30, 2019, the United States Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) announced a final rule to amend the H-1B lottery
process. The rule creates an electronic registration process for
the H-1B Cap lottery and changes the sequence that cases are
selected for the "regular" and "US Masters"
caps. This rule was published in the Federal Register yesterday
– January 31, 2019. Although the rule is effective on April
1, 2019, the process of entering H-1B petitions into the lottery
for FY 2020 (filing April 1, 2019 to April 5, 2019 for a start date
of October 1, 2019) remains the same. What will change in this
year's lottery is how the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Service (USCIS) will select H-1B petitions.
