https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/21/h-1b-spouse-work-ban-pushed-ahead-by-homeland-security/amp/ The prohibition would affect wives and husbands of H-1B visa holders on track for a green card. University of Tennessee researchers have estimated that *93 percent of the approximately 100,000 spouses, who are on the H-4 visa, are women from India*.
Welp that’s dumb. Although I am a little surprised that H-4 Visa holders couldn’t work prior to 2015; I’d be interested in hearing any anecdotal info regarding how the change in 2015 impacted H1B holders and what this current proposal may impact
Not all H4 visa holders can work. Only those H4 visa holders whose spouse on H1b has been deemed eligible for greencard can work. The executive order was passed in 2015 because the backlog queue of greencard was growing for Indians and Chinese due to arbitrary country quota in greencard path. It was a progression in terms of immigration. Generally people on H1b have STEM educated spouses and smarter ppl would want to be in US only if the spouse can also work. But this administration and some people who are against employment based immigrations, keep spewing out stuff immigrants are reducing wages as just a rhetoric and don’t do anything wise about it. For example, if lowering wages are a problem, set a minimum wage for immigrants than just summarily saying we don’t want immigrants. More conservative the immigration becomes, smarter ppl move away. US will have to deal with immigrants who will depend on social security than the ones who can contribute to it. Stat: Currently only 10% of US immigration is employment based (ppl who pay SSN taxes), rest 90% is diversity lottery or family based. Hope US learns from Canada about merit based immigration than doing petty things based on rhetorics
Wow 93% ?!
Yeah true and remove country cap from Green Card so Indians can get 95% of GC's as well.
No thanks
The unemployment rate is historically low and there are so many high paying positions open that there are not enough talents to fill. What's the justification for work ban? Trump supporters claim immigrants are lazy and drains warefare. But guess what? Trump wants to prevent legal immigrants from working and contributing to the US for no reason.
because it makes me more valuable and i get more pay
You are not an immigrant till you get green card. H1B is non immigrant visa.
Why can spouses of l1 visas work and not h1? I know a few people on l1 whose spouses have jobs.
Because L1 is a transfer visa, it’s often not even your decision to make, you have to move to US because your project is being transfered, and why your wife should be punished by that? Your are an important part of the project and your employer knows you. H1B is a sponsorship visa and the situation is different here... Although I don’t think it’s fair, it’s a little different.
H1B needs a complete overhaul. There are not 100,000 jobs that Americans are incapable of filling
But there are 100,000 jobs that Americans are unwilling to take at the rates that companies are paying for them.
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