Authorities say lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year.
FILE - People arrive before the start of a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Miami Field Office in Miami, Aug. 17, 2018. Authorities say lottery bids for highly-educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year, claiming success against people who were"gaming the system" by submitting multiple, sometimes dubious, applications to unfairly increase their chances.
The drop in applications this year “indicates that there were far fewer attempts to gain an unfair advantage than in prior years,” USCIS said in a note to companies, applicants and their representatives. U.S. college graduates can work for three years under an Optical Practical Training visa while they try for an H1-B visa. Because those applicants had steady jobs, they didn't need to submit more than one bid. But that left them at a disadvantage against those with several applications. Some left for work in Canada or Europe.
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