Overview
- USCIS will weight entries by DOL wage level—Level IV gets four entries, Level III three, Level II two, and Level I one.
- Registrations must include the SOC code, intended worksite(s), and the offered salary, and subsequent petitions must match those details.
- The $100,000 proclamation fee remains in effect for consular or port-of-entry cases pending appeal, with a possible National Interest Exception, and it does not apply to change-of-status filings.
- USCIS will place certain cases on adjudicative hold for beneficiaries tied to 39 listed countries or holding specified Palestinian Authority travel documents.
- DOL has proposed recalculating prevailing wages, a pending change that could shift how jobs map to wage tiers used in the selection process.