smilingbandit
Registered Users (C)
At the outset let me confess that I am not much familiar with the whole process of this H1-B. But there is something that I would like to understand better about the current lottery system being followed by the USCIS.
Say the cap is 65000 for H1B for a particular year. Assuming that the number of applications received is more than that, the USCIS conducts a random computer number generated lottery. Since the applications have not been scrutinzed, it is certain that a good number of the applications selected will eventually not be approved. Having thus picked up 65000 applications at random, they will eventually approve only say 55000. What happens to the 10,000 possible H1s that are left vacant? Do they go back to the applications not selected by the lottery and conduct another lottery? If they do then once agin they are likely to end up with not sufficient approved H1s to fill the cap?
If instead, in the first instance of the lottery they pick more than 65000 applications, say an extra 10,000, how do they adjudicate on them? What if they get more than 65,000 approvable applications? Do they conduct yet another lottery from those?
And of course, the final question – what was the process earlier? I remember that the cap was the same as of now a few years ago and they must have always had more applications than the cap limit? What was the process they followed then? Why the change?
Say the cap is 65000 for H1B for a particular year. Assuming that the number of applications received is more than that, the USCIS conducts a random computer number generated lottery. Since the applications have not been scrutinzed, it is certain that a good number of the applications selected will eventually not be approved. Having thus picked up 65000 applications at random, they will eventually approve only say 55000. What happens to the 10,000 possible H1s that are left vacant? Do they go back to the applications not selected by the lottery and conduct another lottery? If they do then once agin they are likely to end up with not sufficient approved H1s to fill the cap?
If instead, in the first instance of the lottery they pick more than 65000 applications, say an extra 10,000, how do they adjudicate on them? What if they get more than 65,000 approvable applications? Do they conduct yet another lottery from those?
And of course, the final question – what was the process earlier? I remember that the cap was the same as of now a few years ago and they must have always had more applications than the cap limit? What was the process they followed then? Why the change?