Recently, the USCIS had announced that it would need to conduct a second H-1B lottery in order to select additional registrations for unique beneficiaries to reach the fiscal year 2025 H-1B regular cap numerical allocation. This selection process has now been completed and USCIS projections indicate that the Service randomly selected a sufficient number of registrations for unique beneficiaries as needed to reach the regular cap from the remaining properly submitted FY 2025 registrations. All prospective petitioners with selected registrations from this round of selection that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration.
Only petitioners with selected registrations may file H-1B cap-subject petitions for FY 2025, and only for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration notice. The Service had previously notified the public that it did not need to conduct a second selection for the advanced degree exemption (the master’s cap), as enough masters cap registrations had already been selected and sufficient petitions were received based on these registrations as projected to meet the masters cap numerical allocation.
The USCIS also provided specific data after the selection process was completed. The service noted that that it had selected 114,017 beneficiaries, resulting in 120,603 selected registrations in the initial selection for the FY2025 H-1B cap. Subsequently, it selected 13,607 beneficiaries in this second selection process for the FY2025 H-1B regular cap, resulting in 14,534 selected registrations.
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