Companies in the USA, who are hiring foreigners through H1-B application will need to electronically pre-register for the H1-B lottery which is to be held annually and then they are required to file a full-fledged application Presently, just to ensure an entry to the lottery petitions needs to be filed with all the supporting documents and evidence. The documentation process is very exhaustive and time-consuming. The companies need to invest a lot of time into this entire process.
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H-1B visa lottery process may hit the immigrants’ big time; this is what the experts are thinking. It is thought that the Visa will be offered to those who have a Master’s Degree from the USA and those who are highly skilled and heavily paid employees. They fear that the lottery system can turn out to become a discriminatory process with lack of transparency The chances of discrimination is quite high as the companies could influence the entire process.
Thousands of immigrants who are working in the USA are likely to get affected by this process. Some have welcomed this step, while others have heavily criticized it. The H-1B visa lottery process is said to be a mechanism adopted by Trump administration to get rid of some of the immigrants settled in the USA.