{"id":15644,"date":"2026-01-15T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:14:08","slug":"dhs-finalizes-h-1b-weighted-selection-rule-without-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/2026\/01\/15\/dhs-finalizes-h-1b-weighted-selection-rule-without-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Finalizes H-1B &#8216;Weighted Selection Rule&#8217; Without Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHS issued a final rule replacing the random H-1B cap lottery with a weighted, wage-based selection process, as proposed. Higher-wage registrations will receive greater selection weight, which may reduce selection chances for recent graduates and entry-level professionals at cap-subject employers. <span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Find VU&#8217;s comment <a style=\"font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2Ftinxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862767861818%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=9aQKjUTFWcdzunXa4JVUy26nfKR2ea5j4GfKtfRLqms%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"here\" data-type=\"url\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0more info\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2F9aoxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862767881774%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kIlJFoEndqfb6h3tJHMp9nzOdzW7aABaKTrMcYKbA74%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"here\" data-type=\"url\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHS issued a final rule replacing the random H-1B cap lottery with a weighted, wage-based selection process, as proposed. Higher-wage registrations will receive greater selection weight, which may reduce selection chances for recent graduates and entry-level professionals at cap-subject employers. Find VU&#8217;s comment here\u00a0and\u00a0more info\u00a0here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}