how is selected 120k? I thought there are only 85k slots
85k approved
The 120k People will be put together hunger game style and the last 85K standing ones will get H1b.
That is way lower than last few years. The restriction to one registration does seem to be working well
Multiple eligible registrations are allowed. Just that the lottery was attached to the beneficiary instead of individual registrations.
How is it any better than ‘last few years’? Only takes away the fact that there will be less cheating/gaming the system through multiple registrations. In reality, if you look at the numbers from previous years and calculate, the total number of unique INDIVIDUALS in the lottery continues to increase every year, and this is because of a high reward low risk scenario introduced by low registration fee, electronic submission, and the actual application fee to be processed AFTER the lottery.
This is a considerable drop from the 781k last year. With increased fees from the next year this should go down further. This is good progress!
They need to increase fees AND go back to the prior approach of filing the whole application before the lottery
This is no progress at all. Even last year, there were 350K unique + some 400K duplicate. I'm guessing for the duplicate ones, on an average everyone filed atleast 3 applications. Which means 350+130K=480K unique applicants were there last year.
Looking at these numbers, how much chances are there for USCIS to conduct a second lottery this year?
I think they reached the numerical cap for FY25 that's what the website says. So slim to no chance for the second lottery ☹️
They usually select more than 85k applications. But then due to many reasons like incorrect applications, layoffs etc, there are many applications that are not approved, hence they conduct the second lottery to reach the 85k number. Comparing it with the last years number, they had selected around 188k applicants in total which would mean 80-90k were not approved. This is my understanding!
120k selected is way too much
This is one data point that makes me believe housing is never going down in the Bay.
469 are from India?
USA passion never dies
If they would only know that US is rooted in white supremacy and toxic masculinity, as the lefty scum tells us study finds
If the lawyers charged $500 average for an application, it is 250 mil business there. Not bad for the economy. USCIS should start selling the visas to highest bidders. I am glad I am out of this nonsense.
How much is the extension?
Attorneys charge 5K upwards. More than the tech lobby it's the lawyers lobby that will keep H1 afloat for a long time.