{"id":1022389,"date":"2026-07-20T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022389"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:07:58","slug":"h-1b-visa-update-will-there-be-second-lottery-all-we-know-as-uscis-achieves-visa-cap-for-fy2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/h-1b-visa-update-will-there-be-second-lottery-all-we-know-as-uscis-achieves-visa-cap-for-fy2027\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa update: Will there be second lottery? All we know as USCIS achieves visa cap for FY2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant update, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services declared on Friday that there will not be a second lottery for FY2027. The agency stated, \u201cUS Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap, for fiscal year 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency organizes a second lottery round if the cap is not achieved. This year, there was a sense of hope for a second or potentially a third lottery round, given the distinct nature of this year&#8217;s H-1B lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant update, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services declared on Friday that there will not be a second lottery for FY2027. The agency stated, \u201cUS Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa US advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap, for fiscal year 2027.\u201d The agency organizes a second lottery round if the cap is not achieved. This year, there was a sense of hope for a second or potentially a third lottery round, given the distinct nature of this year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022390,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022389\/revisions\/1022390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}