Recently, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
("USCIS") completed the FY2023 H-1B lottery. This year,
more than 48,000 prospective employers submitted a record number of
483,927 registrations, of which 127,600 were selected in the H-1B
lottery. If your employee was selected, the deadline to file an
H-1B petition is June 30, 2022. For those not selected, and if
employment authorization for your employee appears to be coming to
an end, there may still be immigration options that employers may
wish to discuss with their foreign national employees to ensure
they are able to maintain employment authorization going
forward.
Foreign nationals who were not selected in the H-1B lottery and
who are approaching the end of their F-1 Optional Practical
Training ("OPT"), or the two-year STEM OPT extension, may
consider enrolling in another academic program in an area of study
related to their work with the employer. However, it cannot be a
repeat of an
