On July 31, 2023, USCIS announced that it ran a second H-1B lottery on 2023 (FY 2024) registrations. The USCIS announcement states:
We now have randomly selected, from the remaining FY 2024 registrations properly submitted, a sufficient number of registrations projected as needed to reach the cap, and 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.
Only petitioners with selected registrations may file H-1B cap-subject petitions for FY 2024, and only for the beneficiary named in the applicable selected registration notice.
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 2 to October 31, 2023.
As we noted before, in 2021 (FY 2022) a second and third selection process took place in August and November, respectively, to make unused H-1B visas available. No additional selections took place in 2022 (FY 2023). USCIS has not yet announced whether and when a third selection might take place later in 2023 (FY 2024).
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