WASHINGTON: A bunch of 15 influential lawmakers from California has suggested the Trump management to rethink its transfer to revoke an Obama-era rule that gives work lets in to spouses of positive classes of H-1B visas, essentially the most sought-after among Indian IT execs.
The lawmakers asserted that the prevailing H-Four rule was an issue of both financial competitiveness and maintaining circle of relatives team spirit.
"The H-4 rule lessened the burden on thousands of H1-B recipients and their families while they transition from non-immigrants to lawful permanent residents by allowing their families to earn dual incomes. Many entrepreneurs used their EADs to start businesses that now employ US citizens," they said in a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M Nielsen.
"Eliminating this benefit removes an important incentive for highly skilled immigrants to remain here to invest in and grow our economy to the benefit of all Americans," the lawmakers said.
The letter got here amidst stories that the Trump Administration was making plans to manner the courtroom to inform that it has made up our minds to rescind the Obama-era govt order which gave work lets in to spouses of positive classes of H-1B visas. The order has no longer been rescinded but.
The lawmakers didn't say if they'd won any response from Nielsen.
The lawmakers said that until 2015, the spouses of many highly skilled H-1B visa holders had been disregarded, not able to contribute financially to their circle of relatives or pursue their own professional goals as a result of they didn't have permission to work.
"It can take decades for these immigrants and their families to receive green cards and the Department of Homeland Security extended eligibility for employment authorisation to certain H-4 dependent spouses because it recognised the economic hardship facing the families of many H1-B workers who needed dual incomes to survive in high-cost areas," the letter said.
"In many areas where these high-tech professionals live, such as Silicon Valley, it is nearly impossible for a family to live on one income," it said.
Since the H-Four rule was implemented 3 years ago for spouses of highly skilled immigrants, over 100,000 staff, principally girls, had been in any case granted permission to work and contribute to their families and america' economy, it said.
"The H-4 rule is a matter of both economic competitiveness and maintaining family unity. The US has already invested in these workers with years of expertise and we should not be sending them abroad to innovate and use their experience and talents against US businesses," the letter said.
Last week, Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Congressman Ro Khanna instructed community leaders that they antagonistic the decision of the Trump Administration to terminate the Obama-era work lets in to spouses of H-1B visa holders.
"I oppose the move. I am on a bipartisan Bill that seeks to ensure work permits for spouses. It is also a question of countering domestic violence. Because most of these spouses are women, in the absence of economic independence, they become vulnerable," Khanna said at an event organised through america India Friendship Council.
"I oppose the move to terminate work permits to H-4 visas. Women who are just as qualified, sometimes more qualified than their spouses but haven't been able to work,"," Jayapal said.
With the way forward for 1000's of Indian professional, mostly girls, at stake, the Indian Embassy here is assumed to have taken up the subject very strongly with the Trump Administration and US lawmakers.
US President Donald Trump signed an govt order for tightening the principles of the H-1B visa programme to forestall "visa abuses" final year.
The lawmakers asserted that the prevailing H-Four rule was an issue of both financial competitiveness and maintaining circle of relatives team spirit.
"The H-4 rule lessened the burden on thousands of H1-B recipients and their families while they transition from non-immigrants to lawful permanent residents by allowing their families to earn dual incomes. Many entrepreneurs used their EADs to start businesses that now employ US citizens," they said in a letter to the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M Nielsen.
"Eliminating this benefit removes an important incentive for highly skilled immigrants to remain here to invest in and grow our economy to the benefit of all Americans," the lawmakers said.
The letter got here amidst stories that the Trump Administration was making plans to manner the courtroom to inform that it has made up our minds to rescind the Obama-era govt order which gave work lets in to spouses of positive classes of H-1B visas. The order has no longer been rescinded but.
The lawmakers didn't say if they'd won any response from Nielsen.
The lawmakers said that until 2015, the spouses of many highly skilled H-1B visa holders had been disregarded, not able to contribute financially to their circle of relatives or pursue their own professional goals as a result of they didn't have permission to work.
"It can take decades for these immigrants and their families to receive green cards and the Department of Homeland Security extended eligibility for employment authorisation to certain H-4 dependent spouses because it recognised the economic hardship facing the families of many H1-B workers who needed dual incomes to survive in high-cost areas," the letter said.
"In many areas where these high-tech professionals live, such as Silicon Valley, it is nearly impossible for a family to live on one income," it said.
Since the H-Four rule was implemented 3 years ago for spouses of highly skilled immigrants, over 100,000 staff, principally girls, had been in any case granted permission to work and contribute to their families and america' economy, it said.
"The H-4 rule is a matter of both economic competitiveness and maintaining family unity. The US has already invested in these workers with years of expertise and we should not be sending them abroad to innovate and use their experience and talents against US businesses," the letter said.
Last week, Indian American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Congressman Ro Khanna instructed community leaders that they antagonistic the decision of the Trump Administration to terminate the Obama-era work lets in to spouses of H-1B visa holders.
"I oppose the move. I am on a bipartisan Bill that seeks to ensure work permits for spouses. It is also a question of countering domestic violence. Because most of these spouses are women, in the absence of economic independence, they become vulnerable," Khanna said at an event organised through america India Friendship Council.
"I oppose the move to terminate work permits to H-4 visas. Women who are just as qualified, sometimes more qualified than their spouses but haven't been able to work,"," Jayapal said.
With the way forward for 1000's of Indian professional, mostly girls, at stake, the Indian Embassy here is assumed to have taken up the subject very strongly with the Trump Administration and US lawmakers.
US President Donald Trump signed an govt order for tightening the principles of the H-1B visa programme to forestall "visa abuses" final year.
Reconsider decision on H-4 visas: US lawmakers ask Trump admin
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