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Final Hours For H-1B Reform Input: Thousands
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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 11/24/2025 8:34:37 PM

The public has until Midnight (Eastern), November 24, 2025, to submit feedback on the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed changes to the H-1B visa lottery. As of midday today, about 1,000 new comments have been posted on the federal portal at Regulations.gov, bringing the total to over 12,000. The proposed rule, titled “Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions”, would replace the current random lottery for 85,000 annual H-1B visas with a system that gives priority to higher-wage positions. Registrations for unique beneficiaries would be entered into a weighted selection pool based on wage levels, with the highest-wage positions having the greatest odds of selection.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ruhn 11/24/2025 9:09:20 PM (No. 2033704)
Disregard comments originating from India.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Californian 11/24/2025 9:18:59 PM (No. 2033708)
We do need some reasonable way for foreign talent to come here but not the way it's been happening for decades. The current system is a scam that pushes Americans out of the system. I personally have been told (3 weeks after starting a new role at a large tech compny you've all heard of) that I was going to be shadowed by and replaced by my Indian counterpart. I was literally hired to learn enough of the job to train my h1b replacement then get dumped. (I gave notice a few days later). The current scam works like this (I know because as a manager this is how it went down when I brought in someone I knew who was h1b at my former company): pay a lot of money to an immigration lawyer who then guides you through the process of writing up garbage claims to the government on the h1b application, pay them more money to follow up to make sure it goes through. Done. The process involved things like posting the job in a newspaper that no one reads. Writing a job description so detailed and specific that my guy was the only person on the planet that could fulfill the requirements such as "X many years experience with the internal systems tools at my company.com". Whatever it gets replaced with can't be worse than we have now. The h1b flood killed the startup industry and innovation in Silicon Valley. There hasn't been real innovation or anything interesting in almost 20 years. Everyone there is just chasing the same dollars for AI, crypto, and quantum computing. Silicon Valley died and the h1b system killed it. So glad to have retired recently and not have to deal with that anymore.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: itsonlyme 11/24/2025 9:36:36 PM (No. 2033712)
Need electricians and plumbers, NOT crypto day traders.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Lawsy0 11/25/2025 12:42:04 AM (No. 2033727)
Do we have a solution yet? 20, 19, 18, 17.....
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 11/25/2025 5:56:45 AM (No. 2033743)
Thanks, #2.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: 5 handicap 11/25/2025 6:19:48 AM (No. 2033746)
Higher wages do not necessarily mean more necessary, wage size is no reason to expedite or favor in hiring!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 11/25/2025 7:25:45 AM (No. 2033772)
I would recommend the following. 1. Suspend ALL H1-B for 60/90 days. 2. Thoroughly clean up the current mess. 3. Re-introduce with following caveats (i) ONLY Master's Degree holders from pre- recognized Universities in recognized specialties (ii) Strictly enforced parity (not necessarily equal) with prevailing US wages. (iii) No direct path to Green Card. Go back to your country and apply.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bpl40 11/25/2025 7:30:02 AM (No. 2033775)
One more key point - 4. Reassess the Green Card program with merit points. Add H1-B experience as a point earner. Also 'cultural assimilability'.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: joew9 11/25/2025 9:39:37 AM (No. 2033855)
We need higher wages for tech. Double current rate. Examine the wages of 1980. Apply the last 45 years of inflation and you will see that wages today are half. Much higher wages will motivate young people to train for the tech field. But that will take 5 years minimum for results to get started. The training takes 4 years minimum. And most of the younger people will not get that training until they have acquaintances that are getting that higher pay. It has been 35 years since the beginning of the H-1B law. We cannot undo bad policy on a dime. Baby boomers - who got fired(me 3 times) so the company could replace us with H-1Bs at 1/3 our wage - will be dead and gone before this problem is cured.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/25/2025 10:36:41 AM (No. 2033889)
Can we all say H1B SCAM?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NotaBene 11/25/2025 11:22:01 AM (No. 2033925)
One start could be cancelling all future Indian H1-B Visas because last abuse. Seattle is populated by Indians now.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Sofia 11/25/2025 2:14:42 PM (No. 2034005)
Right - Seattle and other places should emulate Minnesota and bring in tons of Somalis. That will teach the Indians a lesson or two. Yes, in the meantime Seattle will have Sharia, but hey, at least we dont have H1bs
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