H -1B wage level: What will be the change in the new US immigration rules that will eliminate the visa lottery?

The US administration plans to bring in a new H -1B rule that will now give weightage to the weightage instead of random lottery that now occurs when H -1B registration is more than an annual limit of 65,000 and additional 20,000 for persons with advanced degrees from an American university. The new rule will not apply this year as the registration quota of 2026 has already reached. The US Tech Workers have welcomed the proposed changes as they feel that the changes will end the possibility of using foreign workers to work for the posts that do not require high skills, because H -1 B should be -but they only rent to save money as they will have to pay a lower salary to a foreigner than American citizens.

Understanding weightage-based selection

This is the same rule that the Trump administration wanted to bring during the last term. “USCIS will rank and select petitions obtained based on the level of highest professional employment statistics, which is equal to proficient wages or for relevant standard business classification code in the field of intended employment, starts with OES Wage Level IV and OES Wage Level III, II, and III, II, and I., II, II, II, II, II, II, and I.“(Professional Employment and Wage Statistics Program is within the Department of Labor.)” The 2021 DHS Rules said.

What does this mean?

This means that there will be no H -1B hiring at the entry level. Entry level jobs will be preserved for Americans. Depending on the wages and expertise required for the job, there are four levels: entry, qualified, experienced and fully capable. The national average of the entry-level salary is $ 83k, level 2 $ 108k, level is 3 $ 127k and level is 4 $ 151K.

International grade will suffer, senior American employees will face competition

International graduates seeking entry level jobs in the US will suffer losses as they will not get a chance in the proposed system. While this is good news for American graduates, the new rule has bad news for senior American leadership as the new system will bring more high-ending middle-level H-1 BS. Startups will also suffer as they will not be able to rent cheap labor from H -1 BS.