Washington DC: The Trump administration has proposed amending the regulations of the H-1B visa programme on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to curtail it, according to news agency Reuters.

The new proposal aims to revise the H-1B visa selection process to favour higher-skilled and better-paid workers, according to a related notice published in the Federal Register.

Issued by the Department of Homeland Security, the proposal seeks to scrap the current lottery system and implement "a weighted selection process that would generally favour the allocation of H-1B visas to higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens, while maintaining the opportunity for employers to secure H-1B workers at all wage levels".

If enacted, the new system would prioritise applicati

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