Today, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that they did not receive a sufficient number of submissions in the March 2024 lottery to meet the annual H-1B quota for Fiscal Year 2025 and will therefore run a second H-1B lottery of the unselected electronic registrations previously submitted. The Agency has indicated that the second selection process will begin "soon" and that they will notify prospective petitioners with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary named in the selected registration once the lottery has been conducted.
While USCIS will not be conducting a second selection for the advanced degree exemption (the master’s cap), the second round of selection for the regular cap will include previously submitted registrations that indicated eligibility for the master’s cap along with those that indicated only eligibility for the regular cap.
D&S will closely monitor the progress of the second lottery and will continue to provide updates once USCIS announces that they have completed this second process of selections and notifications.
Update: USCIS has announced that as of today, August 5, 2024, the second H-1B cap lottery has been completed and the agency has now selected a sufficient number of registrations to reach the FY2025 regular H-1B cap and has notified all selected registrations.