USCIS announced that on April 11th it ran a computer-generated random lottery of the filed H-1B cap petitions to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 bachelor’s and 20,000 advanced-degree cap. It noted that it received 199,000 petitions this season and that it will reject and return those petitions not selected for filing, along with the filing fees.
It should be noted that this it received approximately 15% fewer petitions this year than last year (236,000).