All the companies which will be selected will also get the information through their online account by 31st March. Selected companies will then be able to file H-1B visa petitions for foreign workers starting April 1. 65 thousand every year H-1B visa Are issued only. Apart from this, 20 thousand visas will be available to students studying Masters or above in America. However, this time the process of selecting foreign workers is going to change. Let us know how the selection will happen now.

How will workers be selected?

Actually, till now the selection of foreign workers was done through lottery. But the Department of Homeland Security announced in December that it was not going to select foreign workers through lottery. For the first time in the registration for 2027 USCIS Salary is going to be made the yardstick. Under this, the one who has higher salary will be given priority in granting visa. This means that people with more work experience and salary will easily get H-1B visa.

Now the question arises that how will this entire process work. Actually, now jobs will be divided into 4 levels on the basis of their salary. How many chances a worker will have in the lottery will depend on which level he is in. Level 4 will mostly have seniors/experts, who will get 4 tickets. Level 3 will have experienced people, who will be given 3 tickets. Similarly, Level 2 will have mid-level employees, who will get 2 tickets, while Level 1 will have freshers, who will get 1 ticket.

Earlier in the lottery system, whether the salary was 60 thousand dollars or 1.60 lakh dollars, the probability of the worker being selected depended on his luck. But now ability will be seen more than luck. This means that if a worker is a senior developer (level 4), then his chances of getting selected are now 4 times higher than that of a Junior Developer (Level 1). In this way, if you are getting a high salary, then it is not going to be very difficult for you to get a visa.

Who will benefit from the new rules?

The biggest loser of the new selection process of H-1B visa will be those students who have less work experience and want to get this work visa after finishing their OPT or STEM-OPT. He will compete with people more senior than him. It will be difficult for freshers students to get H-1B visa for entry-level jobs. Similarly, senior workers will now have more chances of getting a visa, because they will be getting higher salary due to work experience.