Hey there, hope you're doing good. In last 4 years since Donald Trump became the US president, you must have heard something or the other every now and then related to the changes that he might bring in to the H1B visas. And finally, just before leaving the office, there has been a final rule that has come out which would affect a lot of people if it gets implemented and yes, there is an effective date just a couple of months from now. So in this video, we would be talking about that rule which could devastate many dreams. We would talk about the details of this rule. We would talk about when this rule would get implemented and we'll also talk about if there are any chances that Joe Biden who is about to become the president would actually freeze that rule or not. So if you're interested, stay tuned. Okay, Joe Biden is about to become the US president in just a couple of days time and maybe if you're watching this video after 20th, he would be the president by then. But before leaving the office, Donald Trump has made a big change in the H1B lottery system. Basically, it would not be a lottery system anymore. Things will change a lot. So what is this new rule all about? But before we discuss about that big change in detail, let me tell you about the immigration ban that Trump has extended until 31st March. So back in June 2020, Trump banned the immigration for the rest of the 2020 for the next six months. He said that there would be no H1B visas, no H2B visas, no J or L category visas that would be issued for the rest of 2020, citing the job losses of the American citizens. And now he has extended that immigration ban to 31st March 2021. Now there are good chances that when Joe Biden takes over, he would actually revoke that or invalidate that ban very soon. But yes, now there's another big concern with this final rule being announced by the United States that there would be no lottery system anymore. They're changing the process of allotting the H1B visas to people. So if you might be aware about the lottery process for the H1B visas, so just to give you an example, if let's say there are one million applications, one million people have applied for the H1B visas, they would pick up 85,000 people in a particular year. I think that was the number for their quota. So they would randomly pick those people, those profiles from the pool. There was no criteria as such. But now they have introduced a new criteria that would make it very difficult for many people to get the H1B visas. So what does this final rule has to say? This final rule which was announced a few days back says that now there would be no lottery system. They would actually issue the H1B visas depending on the wages of the employees. And the priorities would be given to those people who have higher wages. So it would be very difficult for entry level person to actually get the H1B visas according to this rule. Now this rule would be applicable from 9th of March 2021. So basically whenever they start issuing the H1B visas once again, this rule would be applicable. Okay, let me give you a little background and explain it to you better so that it would be much more easy for you to understand this new rule. Basically a couple of months back in the month of November 2020, they actually proposed this new change. They said that we want to introduce this change that one B visas would be issued based on the wages. The people who have higher wages would have more chances of getting the H1B visas. It does not mean that people who have lower wages would be ineligible. But if there are people with higher wages, then they would be given more priority. Basically they want to say that if there's a person who is highly skilled, more experienced, obviously his wages, his salary would be higher as well. So they want to prefer that person over the person who is inexperienced or maybe slightly less skilled. So when they actually proposed this change, they published it. Okay, this is a proposed change. And if you have any comments on it, you can let us know it may be a person, it may be a corporate or maybe a university who would have any comments in favor or against that change. So many people actually commented on it, corporates, universities commented on that rule. Many did support it and many opposed it as well. But finally they have said that they have given reasons to everyone in support and they have not accepted any changes that were actually suggested by any other person through any comment. The proposed change has been accepted as it is and the new rule would be that people with higher wages would have higher chances of getting the H1B visas. This basically would mean that people with L3 level jobs or L4 level jobs would have much higher chances of getting the H1B visas while people with the L2B would have a slightly lower chances and probably there would be no chances of people with L1 jobs getting the H1B visas. Now this is a big, big concern. It's a big change. Now this could affect many people. Let's say you are from an IT industry and you want to get the H1B visas, your salary in US was expected to be 80,000 but because there are more people in the pool who have applied, who have salaries of 120,000 or 150,000, they would be given priority over you. So that is a big challenge for employees and the employers as well because if they want to recruit anyone, they would normally recruit any person, they would put the file in the lottery and if it gets picked then the person could come to US. But now the chances of the person who salary is lower would be reduced dramatically. Now this is also a very big concern for all those US universities who used to attract the international students from worldwide because obviously when a student passes he does not get a job of L3 or L4 level. He does get an L1 level job and slowly as he gets some experience he gets to L2 and L3 but it would be a problem because they won't be able to get the H1B visas very easily now. But yes they have actually tried to go against, they have tried to oppose the school, they have tried to say that while countries like Canada, Australia and European, UK even is introducing more measures to actually increase immigration in their countries, US is actually implementing such schools which would actually reduce immigration within US. So that's a big concern for those universities as well and probably that concern would definitely be heard by Joe Biden when he becomes the US President on 20th of January. So yes coming over to this question that will Joe Biden override this rule or invalidate this rule or freeze this rule whatever he wants to say it? Until now we haven't seen any comments directly from Joe Biden or the Democratic Party or they stand on this. They have said about different measures on H1B that they may increase the quota or they may reduce the quota depending on the employment scenario in US. They have said that they would actually definitely invalidate that immigration ban but about this new rule change they haven't spoken a lot. I've tried to go through many articles and yes most of the experts actually say that Joe Biden would definitely invalidate this new rule. It's not a matter if Joe Biden will invalidate this rule it's a matter of time when Joe Biden would actually invalidate this rule. It would be interesting to see that yes I would continue to inform you about it. I really hope that the information that I provided in this video would help you understand the new rule. There's been a lot of talks about it but sometimes it gets very difficult for us as a layman to understand these technical terms. I tried to cut it down to very simpler words just to explain it to you. I really hope that it was easy for you to understand and I also hope that when Joe Biden comes in he would actually invalidate this rule so that things become a lot easier. All those people who dream of moving to US all their dreams should come true. Thanks a lot for watching this video guys if you haven't subscribed my channel yet please like the subscribe button if you have any comments and feedback please put it down in the comment section below. Thanks a lot for watching this video.