Clarification of Proposed "Revised" H-1B Cap Selection System

[tacobell fan]

12/04/2018: Clarification of Proposed "Revised" H-1B Cap Selection System

• Our readers are very confused about how the new proposed system work since the proposed rule includes a huge number of pages and their explanation is confusing and hard to configure how the new system will work. We want to cite the report of Center for Immigration Studies, a hardline immigration organization, that describes well how the new system will work. Here it is: (The new system appaently stemmed from Professor Hira, hartline anti-immigration scholor).
  • "The proposal would reverse the sequence of the two lotteries. This did not seem to make much sense to this non-mathematician....:
  • As described, the current lottery system does not provide an optimal mechanism for achieving that aim [a higher percentage of H-1Bs with U.S. master's degrees] because it dilutes the candidate pool in a manner that greatly diminishes the possibility of adding 20,000 such H-1B nonimmigrants beyond those that would be admitted without the advanced degree exemption allocation.
    Still puzzled, I reached out to Professor Ron Hira of Howard University, the academic with the best grasp of H-1B in the nation. That turned out to be a good move on my part. Hira, unknown to me, testified before a U.S. Senate committee back in 2013, calling for such a shift in the lottery sequence. And then he presented an illustration to me of how it would have worked with the current (spring 2018) set of applicants, using the term "master's +" for those candidates with either a master's degree or a doctorate:
  • [There] are 190,098 total applicants, 95,885 of which are master's +. The current USCIS lottery sequence first gives 20K to master's applicants from the master's cap. So the remaining pool would be 170k, with 76k being master's+. That means that the remaining master's+ would have a 45 percent chance of winning the 65k cap; 28,998 master's+ would win the 65k lottery. The net result of the current system is that 48,998 master's+ are selected.
  • In the system I'm proposing, the random lottery would be re-sequenced. Run the lottery on the 65k base first. In this scenario, master's+ would have a 50.4 percent chance of winning the base cap lottery. That would translate into 32,786 master's+ winning. Then allocate the remaining 20k to the master's cap. The net result of my proposed system is that 52,786 master's+ are selected. This is a modest but material difference favoring U.S.-earned master's + applicants.
    The assumption is that an H-1B worker with an American master's degree or a doctorate would be better trained than someone with either just a bachelor's degree or someone with an overseas master's or doctorate.
  • So in that instance, there would be 3,788 more H-1B workers admitted for that year who had a superior education to the educational mix than we would get under the current system...."
• The foregoing quote is the report of the writer of the Center for Immigration Studies.

source : immigration-law.com

[snoww]

H4 EAD November lo edo milestone chestham annaru ? chesara ?

[tacobell fan]

3 minutes ago, snoww said:

H4 EAD November lo edo milestone chestham annaru ? chesara ?

Proposal officially published in Federal register but not a final one. We have to see next steps on exact date and action plan of implementation.

 

USCIS Semi-Annual Regulatory Action Plan "Officially" Published in the Federal Register

• List of Proposed Rules
  • H-1B Cap Registration Requirement
  • EB-5 Regional Center Program
  • H-4 EAD Removal
  • Filing fees Adjustments
• Final Rules
  • EB-5 Modernization Rule