{"id":989228,"date":"2026-02-02T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989228"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:10:08","slug":"h-1b-applicants-take-note-job-wage-level-plays-a-key-role-in-visa-selection-explains-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/h-1b-applicants-take-note-job-wage-level-plays-a-key-role-in-visa-selection-explains-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B applicants take note: Job wage-level plays a key role in visa selection, explains attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration attorney in the US has highlighted a crucial update for H\u20111B applicants, which is that under the new wage\u2011level weighted lottery system, higher\u2011paid roles now have significantly better chances of being selected. <\/p>\n<p>According to Andre Matias, Managing Attorney at Altius Immigration Law in Washington, each H\u20111B registration receives multiple \u201centries\u201d into the selection pool depending on the wage level associated with the offered position. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA level 4 role will have about 4x the chances of selection compared to a Level 1 role, because Level 4 gets four entries in the pool for every one entry at Level 1,\u201d Matias said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration attorney in the US has highlighted a crucial update for H\u20111B applicants, which is that under the new wage\u2011level weighted lottery system, higher\u2011paid roles now have significantly better chances of being selected. According to Andre Matias, Managing Attorney at Altius Immigration Law in Washington, each H\u20111B registration receives multiple \u201centries\u201d into the selection pool depending on the wage level associated with the offered position. \u201cA level 4 role will have about 4x the chances of selection compared to a Level 1 role, because Level 4 gets four entries in the pool for every one entry at Level 1,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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-989228","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\/989228","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=989228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}