US to conduct lottery system for H1-B visas after hitting cap in 5 days

USCIS will now use the computer-generated process, also known as the lottery, to randomly select the petitions needed to meet the caps of 65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption.

The agency will first randomly select petitions for 20,000 visas allocated to foreign nationals with advanced degrees from US universities.

All unselected advanced degree petitions will then become part of the random selection process for the 65,000 general li ..

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