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The Department of Homeland Security seeks to abandon the existing lottery system in favour of a weighted selection process. "This is aimed at ensuring H-1B visas for higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens, while maintaining the opportunity for employers to secure H-1B workers at all wage levels", says the DHS.

According to the proposal, the selection will be based on the wage level. Workers in the highest of the four wage levels -- earning an annual salary of $162,528 - will receive four entries into the selection poor, which will increase their selection probability. Those at the lowest tier will get only one entry.

Nicole Gunara, Principal Immigration Attorney, Manifest Law said the new proposal could reshape how global talent flows into the US economy.

"In effect, an engineer offered $150,000 at Meta might now have multiple lottery entries, while a junior developer at a startup earning $70,000 might only get one. This tilts the system toward established companies that can pay at the top of the market and away from emerging firms that rely on younger international talent", Gunara said. Moreover the rule could push the shift towards a more senior, higher-paid tech workforce and redefine how the country competes globally for skills.

She explained, "If this rule goes into effect, the H-1B lottery will no longer be purely random. Instead, each applicant's odds will be weighted by salary level. A candidate in a top wage tier could receive multiple entries in the lottery, while someone at an entry-level salary may only get one. That means higher-paid, senior roles will have significantly better chances of selection, while recent graduates and early-career workers will face much steeper odds."

Last week, Trump had signed a proclamation announcing a $100,000 fee for each new application. The visa allowed for companies in the US to hire skilled foreign workers in fields such as technology and engineering through a lottery system.

"President Trump promised to put American workers first, and this common-sense action does just that by discouraging companies from spamming the system and driving down wages. It also gives certainty to American businesses who actually want to bring high-skilled workers to our great country but have been trampled on by abuses of the system", White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers clarified.

While signing the proclamation, Trump said that the "incentive is to hire American workers".

Indians make up 71 per cent of all the approved H-1B applications, according to data by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary had said that the H-1B non-immigrant visa program is one of the "most abused visa" systems currently in the US.

Indian IT giants such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro rely heavily on H-1B visas and the new fee could cost the companies billions. A direct outcome would be reduced hiring or shifting jobs back to India.

This comes amid a visit to the US by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to meet Trump administration officials in New York on Monday.

https://geotimes.id/author/lorripeck/ · at September 24, 2025

The EC move comes less than a week after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi alleged the misuse of online voter deletion forms in Karnataka’s Aland constituency, ahead of the 2023 state Assembly polls, as part of his press conference on “electoral fraud”.

Earlier, applicants could submit forms on the EC apps and portal after connecting a phone number with an existing Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number, with no verification done of whether the details indeed belonged to them.

The e-sign feature, not present till Monday, could be seen on the EC’s ECINet portal on Tuesday while submitting forms. An applicant filling Form 6 (for registration of new electors), or Form 7 (for objecting to proposed inclusion/deletion of a name in existing rolls), or Form 8 (for correction of entries), on the ECINet portal now has to clear the e-sign requirement.

This means the portal warns the applicant to ensure that their name on the voter card that they are using for their application is the same as the one on their Aadhaar, and that the mobile number they are using is also linked to Aadhaar.

There is no change in the Form 7 itself used to apply for deletions or objections

, which requires sharing of all the details of the person whose name is sought to be deleted or objected to (the reasons can be death, shifted, ineligible due to not being an Indian citizen or under 18 years).

After an applicant has filled the form, they are taken to an external e-sign portal hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), which operates under the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. On the CDAC portal, the applicant is required to enter their Aadhaar number and then generate an “Aadhaar OTP”, where the OTP is sent on the phone number linked with that Aadhaar number.

The applicant has to then consent to the Aadhaar-based authentication and complete the verification. Only after that is completed is the applicant re-directed to the ECINet portal to submit the form.

With the e-sign feature being rolled out, sources say the possibility of what happened in Aland is greatly reduced.

Through ECINet, electors can submit forms and election officials can process them

At his press conference on September 18, Gandhi said that “someone” had tried to get names of about 6,000 voters deleted from booths in Aland through online submissions, and that in most cases, the identities of actual voters had been misused to submit the application forms. The phone numbers used to get an OTP to submit the forms were also found to not belong to the electors in whose names the forms were filed.

In February 2023, the poll panel had done its verification of the deletion applications for Aland, and filed an FIR in the case.

The ECINet, launched earlier this year, is one portal and app that combines around 40 earlier apps and portals of the EC meant for voters and officials, including ERONet. The EC had launched ERONet in 2018 as a centralised portal for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs).

Through ECINet, electors can submit forms and election officials can process them. In each case, the Booth Level Officer and ERO concerned are supposed to conduct an inquiry.

In response to Gandhi’s allegations, the EC had said in a statement: “No deletion of any vote can be done online by any member of the public, as misconceived by Shri Rahul Gandhi. No deletion can take place without giving an opportunity of being heard to the affected person. In 2023, certain unsuccessful attempts were made for deletions in Aland Assembly constituency and an FIR was filed by the authority of the EC itself to investigate the matter.”

The poll panel also said that a physical verification of the 6,018 names for which deletions were sought in Aland found that only 24 applications were correct. Applications with respect to the remaining 5,994 were not processed as they were found to still be residing in the same places.

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