On August 23, 2022, USCIS announced it has received sufficient
H-1B cap petitions to meet the annual quota of 85,000 for fiscal
year 2023. The agency will not conduct additional lottery rounds
for FY2023 as it has done in previous years. Last year, USCIS
conducted an additional two lottery rounds—in July and
November 2021—to reach the allocated 85,000 for FY2022
(65,000 H-1B visa regular cap plus 20,000 allocated for advanced
degree-holders).
Starting August 20, 2022, employers and their attorneys began to
be notified of the non-selection of remaining H-1B cap
registrations submitted in the FY2023 H-1B lottery. For FY2023,
USCIS received 483,927 H-1B registrations, of which 127,600
registrations were initially selected.
