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You meant STEM OPT? H1B masters pool only marginally improves H1B lottery chances, which are far too low today to begin with.

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My understanding is that the masters pool is a rather significant improvement in your chances: some Googling finds a random source that claims your chances are 60% higher: https://www.waylit.com/post/what-are-my-chances-of-h1b-lotte...

Whereas OPT not being lottery-based is 100%, no? And more importantly, you can pretty much go work wherever you want with it, every tech firm is ok with it, but relatively few bother with H1B today for overseas candidates.

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