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What Are the Possible Changes for H-1B Lottery System?

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What are the possible changes for H-1B Lottery System? and has USCIS released specific details about the proposed regulation?

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Based on recent reports, the Trump administration is considering significant changes to the H-1B visa program, with a focus on prioritizing higher wages.

Trump administration plans H-1B visa rule changes, focusing on higher wages, potentially disadvantaging early-career foreign workers. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to overhaul the nation’s visa programme for highly skilled foreign workers.

If the administration does what one official described, it would change H-1B visa rules to favour employers that pay higher wages. That could effectively transform the visa into what one expert called “a luxury work permit” and disadvantage early-career workers with smaller salaries, including teachers. It could also upend the current visa programme’s lottery system used to distribute visas to eligible foreign workers.

It will replace the H-1B Lottery System. The administration is exploring replacing the current H-1B visa lottery system with a wage-based selection system.

It will prioritizing higher wages. The proposed changes aim to favor employers offering higher wages for H-1B positions, potentially disadvantaging entry-level workers or those in lower-paying fields.

If implemented, the new changes could significantly impact the tech industry and international students and graduates seeking career opportunities in the US, as well as industries like healthcare that rely on the H-1B program.

This proposed shift echoes a previous attempt by the Trump administration in 2021 to allocate H-1B visas based on wage tiers, which was later withdrawn by the Biden administration. Any final rule based on these proposals is likely to face legal challenges, similar to previous attempts to modify the H-1B program.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has not yet released specific details about the proposed regulation. The next step for the proposal is likely publication in the Federal Register, followed by a public comment period, according to immigration experts.