Trump administration may revoke rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in United States
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According to media reports, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to take away this rule, it said in a statement on Thursday
Trump administration had decided to revoke the rule that allows spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the United States, likely causing a muddle in technology jobs, reports said on Saturday.
As per rules by former President Barack Obama's administration, spouses of H-1B visa holders - while waiting for their green card - had been permitted to work in the US on H-4 dependent visas.
According to media reports, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to take away this rule, it said in a statement on Thursday.
"DHS is proposing to remove from its regulations certain H-4 spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants as a class of aliens eligible for employment authorisation," said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a latest regulation.
According to the notice, the changes are being made in light of President Trump's 'Buy American and Hire American' order issued earlier this year.
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The statement also mentioned ways to review the definition of the different occupations that may be eligible for the program "to increase focus on truly obtaining the best and brightest foreign nationals."
"This announcement places into jeopardy thousands of hardworking, contributing individuals who have started their own businesses and often have US citizen children who will needlessly be forced to revert to a status of inactivity," Leon Fresco, an immigration attorney who worked for the Obama administration, told the daily.
Trump administration's decision to revamp the H-1B program has lead to a stir in India, which accounts for 70% of all H-1B workers.
As per media reports, this rule could potentially reduce the number of highly-skilled workers in the US.
It's a program that's mostly popular in the tech community, with many engineers vying for one of the programme's 85,000 visas each year.