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4. What to Do Now • Work with legal counsel: Work with your immigration legal counsel to streamline the registration process, stay up to date on updates and changes, and ensure compliance with USCIS requirements. • Educate stakeholders: Ensure your internal teams, such as HR and management, understand the lottery process, timelines, and areas of responsibilities to prevent delays and improve coordination. • Prepare alternatives: Not being selected in the H-1B lottery can be a setback, but it doesn’t mean there are no other options. Employers can consider a variety of short-term, long-term, and lesser-known alternatives to ensure they can continue to employ foreign national employees. Conclusion Fisher Phillips will continue to monitor this situation and will provide additional updates as new information becomes available from USCIS. In the meantime, we encourage you to sign up for the Fisher Phillips Insight System to receive the latest updates. If you have any further questions, please contact your Fisher Phillips attorney, the authors of this insight, or any attorney in our Immigration Practice Group.

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