How are recipients of the Visas determined?
Because there are so many applicants for so few visas a lottery system was devised to make the selection process as fair as possible. So this year, 20,000 visa applications for positions requiring a Master’s degree or better were randomly chosen by computer. Those whose applications weren’t chosen were put back into the general lottery, giving them a second chance to selected as one of the 65,000 H1B visa candidates with at least a bachelor’s degree.
