Trump order to limit H1-B visas ? |
US President Donald Trump is preparing to issue executive orders on the H1-B and other visas in the US, his spokesperson Sean Spicer has indicated raising the likelihood of stringent restrictions being placed on them. Spicer told reporters that H-1Bs and other visa are “a part of larger immigration reform effort that trump will continue to talk about through executive order and through working with Congress.There is an overall need to look at all these programs , both through executive action and through comprehensive legislative measures a way to address immigration as a whole . Along with H1-B, Spicer mentioned spousal and others as categories of visas that Trump may act on. H1-B visas are issued to qualified professionals. A related visa is the L1, which is given to employees of a company who are transferred to the US. Both of them are used extensively by Indian companies. In 2015, President Barack Obama`s administration permitted spouses of H1-B visa-holders to get permission to work. Spicer said that these visas were part of the “larger immigration reform effort”. Nearly 86 per cent of H1-B visas for computer-related jobs and 46.5 per cent for engineering positions were given to Indians.
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