The H-1B lottery is a computerized choice course of utilized by the US Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) to pick out petitions for H-1B visas from the pool of eligible petitions acquired in the course of the submitting season.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables U.S. employers to briefly make use of overseas staff in specialty occupations. The lottery is held yearly, and the variety of visas out there is capped at 65,000. In 2023, USCIS acquired over 400,000 H-1B petitions, however solely 65,000 had been chosen within the lottery. The outcomes of the 2025 H-1B lottery are anticipated to be introduced in March 2025.