{"id":989969,"date":"2026-02-05T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989969"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:01:49","slug":"h-1b-weighted-lottery-math-explained-entry-level-odds-slashed-by-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/h-1b-weighted-lottery-math-explained-entry-level-odds-slashed-by-half\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B \u2018weighted\u2019 lottery math explained: Entry-level odds slashed by half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has reshaped the H-1B visa system, moving it away from a random lottery to a wage-weighted model. Data, cited by Newsweek shows entry-level applicants are the hardest hit, with their chances of selection dropping by nearly 50%. Higher-paid roles now get as many as four entries, while lower-paid ones get just one. Add the $100,000 fee for certain overseas filings, and it\u2019s clear the H-1B has become far harder to access for entry-level workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has reshaped the H-1B visa system, moving it away from a random lottery to a wage-weighted model. Data, cited by Newsweek shows entry-level applicants are the hardest hit, with their chances of selection dropping by nearly 50%. Higher-paid roles now get as many as four entries, while lower-paid ones get just one. Add the $100,000 fee for certain overseas filings, and it\u2019s clear the H-1B has become far harder to access for entry-level workers.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989969","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=989969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}