Under the proposed new rules, highly paid foreign workers will have a better chance of being picked for H-1B visas. The probability for foreign workers earning higher wages will shoot up if the new H-1B visa selection process is implemented.
A foreign worker who is offered a higher salary package by a US employer will see his chance improve by 107% under the proposed H-1B visa lottery system.
The proposed H-1B wage-based system prioritizes higher-paid, skilled foreign workers. Selection chances would rise sharply for top earners, up 107% for Level IV applicants, while entry-level workers face a 48% drop.
The proposed H-1B visa wage-based system could significantly increase foreign workers’ chances of obtaining a work permit by 107% when offered a higher salary package by a US employer.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed amendments to the regulations that outline how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B registrations for unique beneficiaries in the process of filing H-1B cap-subject petitions.
Trump and his administration have been taking steps to ensure Americans get priority in jobs over their foreign counterparts.
Meanwhile, US companies have been accused of misusing the H-1B visa system and hiring low-pay workers from abroad, leading to US employees being unemployed.
The new wage-based allocation process is designed to completely change the existing system. In the new system, the higher-skilled and higher-paid foreign workers will be given preference over lower-paid employees in the allocation of H-1B visas.
Simultaneously, the preference for the lowest-paid workers will be the least. There are four wage levels for H-1B applicants – Level I (entry), Level II (qualified), Level III (experienced), and Level IV (fully competent).
DHS estimates that the probability of being selected to file H-1B cap-subject petitions under the new weighted selection by wage level would be 15.29%, 30.58%, 45.87% and 61.16% for level I, level II, level III, and level IV, respectively.
That means, the percentage change in probability of being selected to file an H-1B cap-subject petition from the current to the proposed process would decrease by 48 percent for level I and would increase by 3 percent, 55 percent, and 107 percent for level II, level III, and level IV, respectively.
