On August 5, 2024, USCIS announced that it ran a second H-1B lottery on 2024 (FY 2025) registrations. The USCIS announcement states:
USCIS recently announced that we would need to select additional registrations for unique beneficiaries to reach the fiscal year 2025 H-1B regular cap numerical allocation. Our projections indicate we have now 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. Additionally, we have notified 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.
An H-1B cap-subject petition must be filed within the period indicated on the registration selection notice; for this round of selectees, that period is August 8, 2024 to November 7, 2024.
As we noted before, in 2023 (FY 2024), a second selection process took place in July, to make unused H-1B visas available. No additional selections took place in 2022 (FY 2023). In 2021 (FY 2022) a second and third selection process took place in August and November, respectively. USCIS has not yet announced whether and when a third selection might take place later in 2024 (FY 2025).
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