Hey all I am Apurva and welcome back to WeDesified
we are back with some more latest updates and news about the h1b vistas this year
in this video we are going to talk about the multiple registrations what is the probability
of getting selected in the lottery possibility of the second third and even the fourth lottery this
year and the next steps if you're selected in the lottery or not so all the h1b aspirants and
interested people please watch this video until the very end but before that please
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like we said in our earlier videos the h1b registration window for this year opened on
march 1st and closed on march 18th we hope that all of you who wanted to apply for this h1b cap
have gotten your registration submitted in this period if not then you have to wait until next
year because even if there are second and third lotteries they will pick only from the already
submitted pool of registrations and you cannot register again on march 29th uscis announced that
they have received enough applications for this year's cap and they have completed the first round
of lottery so you must have received your lottery result from your employer by now if you are picked
in the lottery then your registration status updates to selected from submitted to know your
lottery result asking your employer is the only way you have because the results will be updated
only in their online portals many people asked us earlier if there are any other ways for the
candidates to know by themselves but unfortunately this is the only reliable way uscis didn't
announce how many registrations they received this year yet but the estimation is around 310 000 plus
it is mainly based on the previous year's trends and the favorable conditions for the h1bs this
year the effects of the covet pandemic have significantly reduced the economy is doing well
unemployment rates have gone down companies are hiring again and since the biden's administration
the h1b rejections also have gone significantly down from 20 percent to just four percent
and all these factors combined with just 10 registration fee has encouraged many people to
register for the h1b this year at the same time uscis published a rule talking about unfairly
increasing chances of selection that highlights about the fraud involving multiple registrations
it is an already existing rule nothing new but due to many allegations and the court cases
around the fraudulent multiple registrations uscis took a strict stance against those people
who take advantage of the system this created confusion among many people and a lot of you
asked us in the comments as well so we thought to explain this better since it is important to
understand the h1b process and the lottery chances let me explain this with an example
let's assume you have great profile and skill set and you got multiple job offers let's say
you got job offers from both facebook and apple and both of them are ready to sponsor your h1b
great in this case multiple registrations can be submitted for one candidate because there
are two different and legitimate jobs and both companies are not related to each other so there
is no problem here and multiple registrations can be filed now let's see another example
you got a job in apple and apple really liked you and they really want you to work for them
they don't want to let the lottery decide whether you can work for them or not
so to increase your chances apple decided to file multiple registrations on your name
i am just taking apple's name here because everyone knows them and not because they fraud
uscis or something so back to our example apple works with many vendors and staffing companies
to get contractors right so apple filed one registration from their company and asked
their other vendors also to file registrations on your name so there is only one job but total four
registrations submitted for just one person by the related companies this is fraud illegal and
unfair to the other deserving candidates so uscis told that if they find out if any of the companies
do this fraudulent multiple registrations then they will take strict actions against them this
could reduce some applications but doesn't make much difference so the expectation is still 300
to 310 000 applications this year as well the applications are more than 300 000 but the h1b
slots are only 85 000 which means that there is only about 27.5 chance of selection but due
to having an advanced degree quota of 20 000 visas for the people with the us masters and phd degrees
the probabilities are around 21 percent for the people without us masters or phd degrees or the
regular quota and 39 percent chance for the people that qualify for the advanced degree quota by 31st
march all the results of the lottery are announced and some people got selected and some didn't
those who got selected will have 90 days starting april 1st to file their h1b petition
but for those who weren't selected is this the end of the road no for the past two years usci
has conducted multiple lotteries to select more than 85 000 candidates to understand
this better let us review the last year's data last year uscis received a total of 308
613 registrations out of which 48 percent of them are with the u.s advanced degrees in the
round one usaid selected 87 500 registrations but only 59 0783 petitions were submitted
why did uscis receive less number of applications there could be multiple reasons like change of
plans covered loss of jobs but the main reason is the multiple and duplicate registrations
to start with uscis received less applications and out of the received applications some of
them were rejected so the cap of 85 000 was not filled so uscis conducted a second round
of lottery in the second round they selected 27 717 registrations but received only 10964.
by the time they conducted the second lottery on july 29th many people might have changed jobs or
plans to come to the u.s so there were even less number of petitions filed from the round one to
round two so they were not able to fill the 85 000 cap after round two as well so they conducted
round three on november 19th and selected sixteen thousand seven fifty three more registrations
if you add up all the three rounds then the total selected registrations were one thirty
one thousand nine seventy and if you look at the probabilities then it is around 33 percent for
the people in the regular quota and 54 for the people with the u.s masters and phd degrees so
if you have an advanced degree from the u.s your chances of selections are more than 50 percent
and you have one in three chances to get selected even if you are from the regular quota which is
not that bad and if you see there are around 44.5 000 more people selected after the first round of
lottery and the probability increased from 39 to 54 these numbers can be changed this year
but you can still have hope if your registration status still shows as submitted and for the fourth
lottery looking at the above numbers there is very less chance for one more lottery
and keeping the last year's experience in mind uscis will select more registrations in the first
and second lotteries itself so our prediction is that there won't be any fourth lottery if you're
not selected in the lottery then you have very limited options like going for a day one cpt
college or trying for a cap exam job if you cannot wait until next year we can discuss these options
in the next video so that's all we have for this video hope you got a better idea about multiple
registrations and the h1b lottery selection chances if you haven't watched our previous
videos then go check them out now if you find this video useful then please like and share it
and if you have any questions then ask us in the comments section below we will reply and make more
videos to answer all your questions see you in the next video until then keep learning take care bye