US completes 2nd round of random lottery selection for H-1B work visa for foreign guest workers

The United States has completed a second round of random lottery selection for the much sought-after H-1B work visa for foreign guest workers and the successful applicants have been notified. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that they have randomly selected a sufficient number of registrations projected as needed to reach the cap. All the successful applicants eligible for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year beginning October 1, have been notified about it.

 

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies



depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. 

USCIS had to conduct an unprecedented second round of the H-1B lottery, which is held in the first week of April, mainly because of a large number of unqualified applications that were successful in the first H-1B lottery.

 

The federal agency said the H-1B electronic registration process, implemented in 2020 beginning with the fiscal 2021 H-1B cap, has dramatically streamlined processing by reducing paperwork and data exchange and provides overall cost savings to petitioning employers.