Today marks the first day employers can petition for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2018, which starts Oct. 1, 2017. Bloomberg BNA reports the number of petitions has outstripped the number of visas in each year since 2013, prompting a lottery to determine whose petitions get processed. And there’s no sign that it’s slowing down. There are some industries that are scaling back their petitions, but that’s likely to be matched by a surge from others that weren’t able to get the visas in prior years, Amy Cococcia, a partner at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in New York, told Bloomberg BNA.