The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. The H-1B visa is a highly sought-after visa, and the number of visas available each year is limited. As a result, many employers use the H-1B lottery system to select the employees they will sponsor for an H-1B visa.
The H-1B lottery is a two-stage process. In the first stage, employers submit their petitions to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS then randomly selects a certain number of petitions from the pool of submissions. The employers whose petitions are selected are then invited to file a full H-1B petition for the selected employee.
