The cap for H-1B visas for highly skilled temporary foreign workers for the upcoming federal fiscal year was again reached within a week, US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Thursday.

The visas are capped at 65,000 per year, plus another 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees, for a total of 85,000. USCIS will now use a computer-generated process, also known as the lottery, to randomly select the petitions needed to meet the caps.

The visa cap has been reached within a week for the past two years, and USCIS anticipated the same timeframe again this year. USCIS received nearly 233,000 petitions last year for H-1B visas, up 35% from 172,500 in 2014.