US moves to ease H-1B spouses from jobs

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It has now come to light that the new administration's department of justice (DOJ) has filed a brief in the Washington DC court of appeals seeking a 60-day freeze in a case involving employment authorisation for H-4 visa-holders, who are primarily dependent spouses of H-1B visa-holders.

Thousands of Indian spouses come in this category, and they won a hard-fought permission to work in America in February 2015, when the Obama administration issued a rule through the department of homeland security allowing eligible spouses to be employed while the H-1B visa-holder awaits the receipt of his/her lawful permanent residency card (green card).

Soon after the rule was issued, a group called Save Jobs USA filed a lawsuit, but a district court ruled that it had no locus standi to sue and upheld the Obama administration's rule.

Taking the case to the appeals court, Save Jobs USA filed its initial brief soon after the Trump administration took charge, and found immediate support from the DOJ, which filed a document on February 1, 2017 titled "Consent motion to hold proceedings in abeyance for 60 days", asking the court to "allow incoming leadership personnel adequate time to consider the issues".
US moves to ease H-1B spouses from jobs - Times of India

And the spouses too.
 
It has now come to light that the new administration's department of justice (DOJ) has filed a brief in the Washington DC court of appeals seeking a 60-day freeze in a case involving employment authorisation for H-4 visa-holders, who are primarily dependent spouses of H-1B visa-holders.

Thousands of Indian spouses come in this category, and they won a hard-fought permission to work in America in February 2015, when the Obama administration issued a rule through the department of homeland security allowing eligible spouses to be employed while the H-1B visa-holder awaits the receipt of his/her lawful permanent residency card (green card).

Soon after the rule was issued, a group called Save Jobs USA filed a lawsuit, but a district court ruled that it had no locus standi to sue and upheld the Obama administration's rule.

Taking the case to the appeals court, Save Jobs USA filed its initial brief soon after the Trump administration took charge, and found immediate support from the DOJ, which filed a document on February 1, 2017 titled "Consent motion to hold proceedings in abeyance for 60 days", asking the court to "allow incoming leadership personnel adequate time to consider the issues".
US moves to ease H-1B spouses from jobs - Times of India

And the spouses too.
Most judges got where they are by accepting contributions along the way and always throw out anti-H1-B lawsuits.
In other words, they are bought and paid for corporate scumbags.
 
I can't imagine this affects many Indian women here on that sort of visa

They've only had this right for two years, and the reason their husbands got jobs was because they agreed to work as indentured servants. The wives can't sign away their rights in a similar agreement.

Unless the wife is skilled too, I don't see this having a huge effect on families here on H1Bs...

I agree with trump on this and I'm a South Asian.

We should want more Indian AMERICANS who can freely participate in the labor market not Indian indentured servants who exist to undercut our peers.
 

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