Lawmakers Revisit Changes to H-1B Lottery in Immigration Plan

Employers of H-1B visa holders could see a Trump-like wage-based selection system put in place by the Biden administration under a provision included in its newly released immigration legislation.

According to the U.S. House and Senate bills introduced Thursday, the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 would give the secretaries of Homeland Security and Labor the authority to determine the order in which visas should be distributed among H-1B workers, including through regulations “to establish procedures for prioritizing such visas based on the wages offered by employers.”

The bill also extends this criteria for selection to “any other category of nonimmigrants ...