The United States government has reached its congressionally mandated H-1B visa cap for the fiscal year 2023 – meaning employers will have to wait until April 1, 2024, to start filing applications. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it had received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 visa cap – necessitating the computer-generated lottery that would determine which petitions would be accepted first.