Following its initial selections in March 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will need to select additional registrations for unique beneficiaries to reach the FY 2025 regular cap numerical allocation. USCIS will make the selections from previously submitted electronic registrations using a random selection process.

USCIS said it will notify prospective petitioners with selected registrations that they are eligible to file an H-1B cap-subject petition for the beneficiary. Those with selected registrations will have their USCIS online accounts updated to include a selection notice, which includes details of when and where to file.

USCIS will not conduct a second selection for the advanced degree exemption (master’s cap) because a sufficient number of master’s cap registrations were already selected and petitions received are projected to meet the FY 2025 master’s cap numerical allocation. 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.

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