USCIS Announces Second H-1B Cap Lottery

On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will conduct a second H-1B cap lottery. The agency will select an additional number of H-1B registrations from the remaining registrations submitted during the registration period, which ran from March 6 to March 22, 2024. As of the time of this publication, lottery registration selection has not been completed by USCIS.

As previously reported by Mintz, USCIS held open the possibility of subsequent H-1B selection periods for registrations submitted in March if an insufficient number of H-1B petitions were filed with USCIS based on the initial lottery selections.

USCIS has determined that fewer H-1B petitions were filed as compared to selected H-1B registrations. As a result, USCIS will select additional registrations among the eligible, unselected registrations from March in order to ensure that enough petitions are approved to fill the annual quota of 85,000. USCIS