Just days after US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to increase the fees for H-1B visas to USD 100,000, leaving several thousand immigrant workers in a quandary, the White House has released a proposal that would amend the visa selection process to make it favourable for higher-skilled and better-paid workers, a Federal Register notice said.

If the new proposal by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was released on Tuesday (September 23), comes into effect, it would “implement a weighted selection process that would generally favor the allocation of H-1B visas to higher skilled and higher paid aliens, while maintaining the opportunity for employers to secure H-1B workers at all wage levels, to better serve the Congressional intent for the H-1B program”.

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