The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it would replace the lottery programme used to grant H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers with a system that prioritises higher-paid individuals.
The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a “weighted” selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website.
Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson, said: “The existing random selection process of H-1B registrations was exploited and abused by US employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers.”
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