The H-1B visa—the most common way to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S.—is now under intense scrutiny for “stealing” and “replacing” American jobs and workers. How the H-1B lottery works nowAbout 85,000 H-1B visas are given out each year, and it is all by chance as candidates are “randomly selected,” per the U.S. Everyone else has a 12-months OPT, meaning they can only enter the H-1B lottery once. It is clearly paying off as around 70% of H-1B visas went to Indians last year, according to the BBC. Costa also agrees that the H-1B system needs a more scrutiny.

Source: Forbes February 04, 2017 14:03 UTC