Biden admin ‘undecided’ on ending Trump-era H-1B visa ban
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The Biden administration on Monday indicated it’s nonetheless undecided on ending the Trump-era ban on issuing new H-1B visas, with the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asserting that its high precedence is the acute wants of people fleeing persecution. In January, then-President Donald Trump had prolonged the ban on issuing new H-1B visas until March 31 arguing that the nation is having a really excessive unemployment fee and the US can not afford to have extra overseas employees.
“His successor President Joe Biden has revoked dozens of the executive orders of Trump including several of those related to immigration like the lifting the Muslim visa ban or those related to Green Card, the one that imposed a ban on issuing H-1B has still not been lifted. It will expire on March 31, if Biden does not issue a fresh proclamation.”
“What is the status of the review of the Trump-era visa bans for H1B visas and has the White House decided to lift those bans before they expire at the end of the month?” Mayorkas was requested at a White House information convention.
“I don’t really (know)–I hate to end the questioning on a question. The answer to which I am not certain. But this goes to what proceeded us. We have so much work to do to repair and to restore and to rebuild that we have a prioritization matrix and of course, the acute needs of individuals fleeing persecution is a high priority. Which brings me to this meeting this morning,” Mayorkas mentioned in response.
At the identical time, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has gone forward with its H-1B utility allocation course of for the fiscal yr starting October 1, 2021.
Last month it introduced that it has acquired sufficient purposes to allocate 65,000 H-1B visas and one other 20,000 H-1B visas to those that have accomplished their larger schooling from US universities.
Biden has revoked a coverage issued by his predecessor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that blocked many Green Card candidates from coming into the US, a transfer that may profit many Indians working in America on the H-1B visa.
Trump, a Republican, issued the ban final yr, saying it was wanted to guard US employees amid excessive unemployment as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
A Green Card, recognized formally as a Permanent Resident Card, is a doc issued to immigrants to the US as proof that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing completely.
Indian IT professionals, most of whom are extremely expert and are available to the US primarily on the H-1B work visas, are the worst victims of the present immigration system which imposes a seven per cent per nation quota on allotment of the coveted Green Card or everlasting authorized residency.
The H-1B visa, essentially the most wanted amongst Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that enables US corporations to make use of overseas employees in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience. Technology corporations depend upon it to rent tens of hundreds of workers annually from nations like India and China.
The US is presently dealing with a backlog of almost 473,000 certified family-based Green Card requests.
As a results of Trump’s ban on issuing inexperienced playing cards, as many as 120,000 family-based choice visas had been misplaced. But this got here as a giant boon for issuing employment-based inexperienced playing cards, primarily these on H-1B visas.
Thousands of Indian IT professionals who painstakingly waited for his or her Green Card acquired their authorized everlasting residency because of this in the previous few months of the Trump administration.
(With PTI inputs)
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