Continuing with the rapidly evolving immigration landscape in the United States, 1 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will publish a proposed rule in the Federal Register on 24 September 2025 seeking to overhaul the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selection process for registrations for H-1B cap subject petitions (Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule outlines a transition away from a random selection process to a weighted system that favors positions with a higher prevailing wage level, as opposed to a higher salary.

Under the Proposed Rule, each H-1B registration would be assigned a number of entries into the H-1B selection pool based on Department of Labor Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) wage levels, with a Level IV receiving four entries and Lev

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