[jerryseinfiel]

Hi Peter,

You mentioned the prevailing wage update affects people renewing visas. Would you please be able to elaborate on that and the "field of study" change?

1.) Is there a guide to figure out which level you fall under?

2.) Lets say based on my years of experience (4 years + MS), I qualify for level 4, does that mean if I don't have base salary of 217,000 in NYC, then I am not able to obtain a H1B?

3.) If you have a related degree like analytics or data science, are you eligible to work as software engineer or has that become invalid?

4.) How long is this expected to run its course if no litigation or no other outside force provides adequate changes?

[proberts]

(1) Yes and I'll forward it shortly. (2) Yes. (3) Possibly but these petitions will be scrutinized even more closely. (4) I'm not sure what you mean.

[jerryseinfiel]

Thanks Peter for the prompt responses!

For (4), I guess I am asking are these changes permanent? Or are they a temporary change (e.g. only valid until end of 2020 like the visa ban that the Trump admin had released earlier this year).

[anirudhan]

I am in similar situation as you but based out of Bay area. How were you able to find out your level?

[jerryseinfiel]

https://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx