{"id":3397,"date":"2025-07-28T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:17:48","slug":"new-trump-policy-ending-the-h-1b-visa-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/new-trump-policy-ending-the-h-1b-visa-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"New Trump Policy &#8230;..Ending the H-1B Visa Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Trump administration plans to publish a proposed rule to end or significantly change the annual H-1Bvisa lottery<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/news_istock_000015711880xsmall-2-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/image-shadow\/cache\/3abfd3d1389c5fd735f0420946e1d45e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/image-shadow\/cache\/3abfd3d1389c5fd735f0420946e1d45e.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/NEWS_iStock_000015711880XSmall-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the end of Trump\u2019s first term, the administration proposed ending the current random selection process used each year when H-1B registrations exceed the annual limit of 65,000, plus a 20,000 exemption for individuals with an advanced degree from a U.S. university.<\/p>\n<p>In its place, USCIS would have awarded H-1B petitions based on salary from highest to lowest. Commenters warned the rule violated the statute and would disadvantage recent international students and other early-career professionals. The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the rule and could clear it for publication within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Under this system, USCIS would not have selected anybody paid at Level 1 for the regular cap or advanced degree exemption. USCIS would have chosen only 20% of individuals at Level 2 for the 20,000 advanced degree exemption and 75% of the Level 2 registrants for the 65,000 regular cap, or about 50% combined, according to DHS data.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been talking about doing this for a long time. Get ready &#8212; this will be a big change and could dramatically change who receives these visas and how companies hire foreign talent.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stuartanderson\/2025\/07\/21\/new-trump-immigration-policy-ending-the-h-1b-visa-lottery\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration plans to publish a proposed rule to end or significantly change the annual H-1Bvisa lottery Near the end of Trump\u2019s first term, the administration proposed ending the current random selection process used each year when H-1B registrations exceed the annual limit of 65,000, plus a 20,000 exemption for individuals with an advanced [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationcompliancegroup.com\/immigration-compliance-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}