Trump Administration Proposes To Scrap H-1B Lottery System, Floats New Rules | Read
The United States has proposed to amend the regulations of the H-1B visa programme just days after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to curtail it.
The new proposal by the Department of Homeland Security seeks to scrap the existential lottery system and implement "a weighted selection process that would generally favour the allocation of H-1B visas to higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens, while maintaining the opportunity for employers to secure H-1B workers at all wage levels".
According to the proposal, the selection would be based on the wage level to which they are assigned. Workers who are in the highest of the four wage levels -- earning an annual salary of $162,528, would be entered into the selection pool four times and those at the lowest tier would only be entered once.
