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		suyash on April 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: H1B Visa Lottery for FY 2014 No, USCIS collects all the applications received during the 1st five business days and put them together before they are lottried out. So any application received after today would automatically be rejected.

robot on April 6, 2013 [–]

Since the cap was reached today, does that mean 60K cap + all excess applicants that applied today, are put in the lottery for 60K slots?

suyash on April 6, 2013 | [–]

exactly, the applications received were more than quota, thus the lottery.

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