INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
H-1B visa: IT firms depend on H-1B to hire employees each year from countries like India and China.
The US is planning a major overhaul in the definition of employment and specialty occupations under H-1B visas, the Department of Homeland
The move will have an adverse impact on Indian IT (information technology) companies and small and medium-sized contractual firms, mostly
owned by Indian-Americans, according to a report by news agency Press Trust of India (PTI)
The President Donald Trump-led administration also said that revoking the H-4 visa, which allows spouses of H-1B visa holders to work, will
H-1B visa, the most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers
in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise
Here are 10 latest updates on H-1B visas, H-4 visas:The DHS said On Wednesday that the US Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) plans to come out with a new proposal by January, 2019
USCIS will propose revision of the "definition of specialty occupation" to increase focus on obtaining the best and the brightest foreign
US workers and wages, the DHS said
designed to ensure employers pay appropriate wages to H-1B visa holders, the administration was quoted as saying in the PTI report
annual numerical limitations applicable to the H-1B non-immigrant classification
The rule also makes accommodations for petitioners to create a more efficient filing process for H-1B petitions subject to the annual
numerical limitation.Observing that the demand for H-1B visas has often exceeded the numerical limitation, the DHS said it was proposing to
establish an electronic registration programme for such applications
the US, a move that could impact tens of thousands of Indians
Abandoning the Obama-era rule of granting work permits to H-4 visa holders - who are spouses of professionals holding H-1B visas, mostly
Indians - will benefit some US workers, the DHS believes
The DHS said the proposed rule would no longer allow H-4 workers to enter the labour market early.The move could impact more than 70,000 H-4
visas holders, who have had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration in 2015.The Trump
administration is reviewing the H-1B visa policy that it thinks is being misused by companies to replace American workers
