Skilled Worker Visa Lottery Could Favor Advanced Degree Holders (Corrected)

A master’s degree could be the winning ticket in the scramble for skilled worker visas next year as the federal government seeks changes to the H-1B lottery.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has signaled that it wants to skew the lottery for the skilled guestworker visas to favor workers with advanced degrees from U.S. colleges and universities. The agency has finished a proposed regulation on the issue that would also create a preregistration process for employers seeking workers on H-1B visas.

USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna recently told Bloomberg Law in an exclusive interview that he’s aiming to have the ...