>Prior to the guidance, H1-B filers could just say "this is a programmer, thus they are a specialist" and now they need to provide evidence Only at the Nebrask

>Prior to the guidance, H1-B filers could just say "this is a programmer, thus they are a specialist" and now they need to provide evidence Only at the Nebraska center, not the California one, nor the Vermont one. And it's only a reminder to the Nebraska center that to be considered a specialist you need to hold a bachelor's degree or higher in that field of study. The California and Vermont one were already applying this rule. It's not clear how many H1-B petitions are event sent to the Nebraska center, but according to [1], originally very few. > their ready-to-be-submitted applications for Bachelors and Masters-degree holding developers just got a whole lot harder That's not my understanding of the notice, but our definition of "a whole lot" might differ. [1] https://www.uscis.gov/i-129-addresses https://www.uscis.gov/i-129-addresses