The Connecticut Department of Public Health conducted a public randomized drawing to rank applicants for the Conrad 30 J-1 Visa Waiver Program on a recorded virtual session. The department read 30 unique applicant IDs aloud from a pool of 33 eligible applications; the order will be recommended to the Public Health Commissioner for final determination.

The drawing, which the department said would be posted on its website, was presented as an impartial, transparent procedure. A department staff member opened the session saying the results would be recorded in real time and displayed on camera, and that questions could be submitted to the department separately. "We received 33 eligible applications," the staff member said, and because the program can accept only 30, the random selection would determine which applicants receive letters of support.

During the session a reader recited the randomized applicant identifiers one by one while the moderator recorded them in a notepad. At the close of the session, the moderator said, "The order of names drawn represents the ranking of applications recommended to the Public Health Commissioner for review. This is not a final list." The department indicated it will notify applicants of their final status after the commissioner completes the review and will post the lottery results on the Connecticut Department of Public Health website.

The drawing establishes an administrative ranking used for departmental review and does not itself finalize which applicants will receive letters of support. The next procedural step named on the recording is review and selection by the Public Health Commissioner, after which the department will notify applicants of outcomes.