{"id":1003543,"date":"2026-04-17T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003543"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:26:21","slug":"how-change-in-h-1b-selection-system-has-been-a-boon-to-employees-already-in-the-us-whose-companies-opted-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/how-change-in-h-1b-selection-system-has-been-a-boon-to-employees-already-in-the-us-whose-companies-opted-to\/","title":{"rendered":"How change in H-1B selection system has been a boon to employees already in the US whose companies opted to \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cunseen levels\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>The BL report quotes Kelli Duehning, partner at business immigration law firm BAL who said that selection rates exceeded 60% from some clients. \u201cThe $100,000 fee was really, it felt like, the big delta,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cunseen levels\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}