The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that permits US-based companies to recruit foreign workers in specialty occupations that require technical or theoretical expertise.

The United States has finished a second round of the random lottery selection for the much-decided H-1B visa for foreign guest employees, and the applicants that were successful have been notified, as per the federal agency.

The H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that permits US-based companies to recruit foreign workers in specialty occupations that require technical or theoretical expertise.

Technology companies in the USA depend heavily on the thousands of employees that it recruits each year from India and China.

“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,” the US Citizenship and Immigration Services added on Tuesday.

“All the successful applicants eligible for the H-1B visas for the fiscal year beginning October 1, have been notified about it,” it further added.

The USCIS had to organize a second round of the H-B1 lottery, primarily held in the first week of April, mainly because of a remarkably high number of unqualified applicants that succeeded in the initial H-B1 lottery.

“The large number of eligible registrations for beneficiaries with multiple eligible registrations much larger than in previous years has raised serious concerns that some may have tried to gain an unfair advantage by working together to submit multiple registrations on behalf of the same beneficiary,” USCIS claimed.

“This may have unfairly increased their chances of selection. We remain committed to deterring and preventing abuse of the registration process, and to ensuring only those who follow the law are eligible to file an H-1B cap petition,” the USCIS also added.

The USCIS confirmed that it witnessed a significantly increased number of applicants this year compared to the previous years.

“Generally, we saw an increase in the number of registrations submitted, the number of registrations submitted on behalf of beneficiaries with multiple registrations, and the number of registrations submitted on behalf of unique beneficiaries with only one registration. USCIS saw upward trends in the FY 2022 and FY 2023 H-1B registration periods as well,” it claimed.

“We are working on an upcoming H-1B modernisation rule that will propose, among other improvements, bolstering the H-1B registration process to reduce the possibility of misuse and fraud in the H-1B registration system.”

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