It's luck in the sense that for your first H-1B, you must go through a lottery (a completely random selection process). The actual adjudication and approval of

It's luck in the sense that for your first H-1B, you must go through a lottery (a completely random selection process). The actual adjudication and approval of an H-1B petition, if the individual is selected in the lottery, for individuals with good educational backgrounds, is actually pretty easy. It's getting picked in the lottery that's the hard part.