The Department of Homeland Security released a final rule changing next year’s lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas from the current random selection process to one based on an individual’s wages.
The new selection system prioritizing registrations based on wage level “will incentivize H-1B employers to offer higher wages, or to petition for positions requiring higher skills and higher-skilled aliens that are commensurate with higher wage levels, to increase the likelihood of selection and eligibility to file an H-1B cap-subject petition,” the agency said in the measure made public on Thursday.
The rule will take effect 60 days after its ...