The H1B applicant information from the physical H1B packages was fed into the USCIS online system and then a lottery or random selection was done. For the H1B petitions received, they would tag each petition with a number and use a computer-generated random selection to pick the required number of petitions to meet the cap. In the past, until FY 2020 season ( that ended in April 2019), employers had to submit the entire H1B petition package within the first 5 days, starting from April 1st to be considered for the H1B Lottery.
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H1B Lottery Process before Online Registration System For the most recent fiscal year, USCIS received about 308,613 petitions for FY 2022 and there was three round of lottery as well. Read History of H1B Cap Reach Dates from 2000 to 2022 for more info. Again the demand for H1B Visas started from FY 2014 and now we had it for the previous 9 consecutive years, including the previous fiscal year 2022. After that, there was no lottery situation for 4 years. If you look at history, we had the H1B visa lottery situation for FY 2008 and FY 2009 as there were more petitions received by USCIS. If there are more than 85,000 applicants applying for H1B in a year, then the H1B Lottery situation arises. The H1B Lottery situation arises due to a fixed number of H1B visa slots available (total around 85K) per year for new applicants.
Origin of term H1B Lottery: USCIS originally called the H1B lottery process officially as “computer-generated random selection processes”, which was back in 2007…as time progressed and people have started to embrace the colloquial word called “Lottery” for the same…You can see that USCIS has embraced the same and say “computer-generated process, also known as the lottery“, in recent years, including this year’s, press release as it is easily understood and many can relate to it. The lottery selection is done to select enough applicants to meet the H1B Cap of 65,000 for the Regular quota and 20,000 for Master’s quota. H1B lottery is nothing but a “random selection process” used to select the required number of H1B applicants from a larger pool of applicants.
It is just the terminology that is used to indicate the “ random selection” process used by USCIS. I have seen questions from users asking, “where should I buy H1B Visa 2023 lottery ticket? I want to get H1B…” Firstly, there is nothing like buying a lottery ticket for an H1B visa. When you look at the term lottery, it is very misleading for new people. If you are new to the H1B process and not sure about what is H1B cap is, then read What is H1B Visa Cap ? Masters vs Regular Quota ? What is H1B Visa Lottery ? Random Selection ? History of H1B Visa Lottery Process until FY 2019
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