{"id":963984,"date":"2025-09-24T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963984"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:36:16","slug":"h-1b-visa-overhaul-set-to-replace-lottery-with-wage-based-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/h-1b-visa-overhaul-set-to-replace-lottery-with-wage-based-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa overhaul set to replace lottery with wage-based rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Administration has proposed a sharp change to the H-1B visa regime, one that could tilt the playing field in favour of highly paid professionals while making life harder for outsourcing firms that depend on lower-cost talent. <\/p>\n<p>A notice filed in the Federal Register on Tuesday outlines a plan to replace the current random lottery with a selection process weighted by wage levels. The idea is simple \u2014 applicants offered higher salaries stand a better chance of winning one of the 85,000 annual H-1B slots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Administration has proposed a sharp change to the H-1B visa regime, one that could tilt the playing field in favour of highly paid professionals while making life harder for outsourcing firms that depend on lower-cost talent. A notice filed in the Federal Register on Tuesday outlines a plan to replace the current random lottery with a selection process weighted by wage levels. The idea is simple \u2014 applicants offered higher salaries stand a better chance of winning one of the 85,000 annual H-1B slots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963984","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}