How change in H-1B selection system has been a boon to employees already in the US whose companies opted to …
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) introduced a new H-1B visa selection system last year. The department then replaced the random lottery system for H-1B visa selection with a new wage-weighted model. According to a Bloomberg Law report, US businesses saw selection rates jump to “unseen levels” for high-skilled foreign workers this year. The report cited data from multiple immigration firms with many stating selection rates of over 50% across the board in some cases, compared to one in three selection chances in previous years.
The BL report quotes Kelli Duehning, partner at business immigration law firm BAL who said that selection rates exceeded 60% from some clients. “The $100,000 fee was really, it felt like, the big delta,” she said.
