https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/28/h-1b-visa-trump-administration-proposes-to-scrap-lottery-in-favor-of-wage-based-selections/

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to scrap the H-1B visa lottery and replace it with wage-based selection. But a prominent critic of the government’s immigration policies said the new rule would keep younger foreign workers out and deter international students from coming to the U.S.

Under the proposed rule, when initial H-1B visa applications subject to the annual 85,000 maximum surpass that cap — as has occurred since 2014 — visas would be awarded first to people in the highest of four wage categories, then to those in the third level, on down to the lowest level until all have been given out.