To me, this makes little sense, but I support the goal. The goal should be to to give the visa to the company/worker pair that will most benefit the US. One o

To me, this makes little sense, but I support the goal. The goal should be to to give the visa to the company/worker pair that will most benefit the US. One obvious positive signal is compensation. But we also know this will tend to shut out smaller firms since options won’t count. I would look at allocating some fraction of the visas to small firms that directly hire the candidate (no consultants / body shops) with a pretty low limit per firm. Also, from the POV of a highly qualified candidate and a company that really needs them, a lottery is a terrible solution. The body shops have no issue spamming the process, they don’t really care about and individual application. We need a system that allocates better, and removes or reduces the randomness.