On April 10, 2014, USCIS announced that it received about 172,500 H-1B
petitions during the filing period which began April 1, including petitions
filed for the advanced degree exemption. On the same day, USCIS completed
a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough
petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and 20,000 cap under
the advanced degree exemption. For cap-subject petitions not randomly
selected, USCIS will reject and return the petition with filing fees,
unless it is found to be a duplicate filing