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From the article: > That practice, according to the agency, is in large part responsible for inflating demand for the visas to a record high this year, with 78
by vivegi 3y ago
From the article:
> That practice, according to the agency, is in large part responsible for inflating demand for the visas to a record high this year, with 781,000 entries into the lottery for 85,000 visa slots.
> About 350,000 applicants for H-1B visas submitted one entry into the lottery this year, compared with about 307,000 last year.
> Some 96,000 people submitted multiple visa entries, for a total of about 408,000 entries.
> About 478,000 people competed for visas last year, a record at the time.
So, 350,000 (single entry submission applicants) + 96,000 (multiple entry submission applicants) = 446,000 unique applicants compared to 478,000 unique applicants last year.
That's 6.7% fewer unique applicants.
- toast0 3y agoIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, H1B applications went down so far that there was no lottery for fiscal years 2010-2013; the applications spread over several months. This drop in applicants could be a sign of economic downturn.
- hungrigekatze 3y agoThis page is pretty jank-tastic but it has some charts on it in addition to serving up H1B lottery numbers, the # of days in which the lottery cap was reached, etc. Has some interesting data points around the GFC plus or minus a few years: https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-history-graphs-uscis-data/ https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-history-graph... 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 saw no H1B lottery. 2007 took 55 days to reach the cap; 2010 took 264 days; 2011 took 300 days; and 2012 took 235 days; and 2013 took 71 days to reach the H1B visa cap. I haven't averaged out the 'days to reach the cap' during the other years shown on that chart but the decade or so of "5 days" mixed in with a few 10 and 20 days tells me that the cap is usually reached in about a week or so. I'm sure that there are sites with prettier bar charts. What surprised me the most was that in the early-to-mid-2010s you were looking at ~85k H1B applications, with that number increasing into the high 100ks, low 200ks by the late 2010s. 2022 saw ~300k applicants with 2023 seeing half a million.