A US district court has ruled in favor of H-1B visa holders, affirming their right to legal action if their visa is revoked due to employer fraud via multiple filings. Ten Indian citizens filed the lawsuit after their visas were cancelled for similar reasons. The court recognized the beneficiaries right to notification before revocation, addressing a procedural violation by the USCIS.
According to the US Embassy and Consulates in India, Indians now represent over 10% of all visa applicants worldwide, including 20% of all student visa applicants and 65% of all H&L-category (employment) visa applicants.
Trump curbs would have shaved off I-T firms’ profit margins by up to 5.80%, hit mid-tier firms most
In a huge relief to Indian IT service companies and techies, the Biden administration has scrapped changes to H-1B visa rules introduced by the Donald Trump administration in October 2020.
Though the Trump-era regulation never took effect due to a federal court ruling, the US government has formally rescinded it and reinstated long-standing H-1B eligibility criteria.
The rules would have revised the definition of “specialty occupation,” placed new restrictions on the placement of H-1B workers at third-party work sites and reinstated contract and itinerary requirements.
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AAA The Biden administration on Friday said it is willing to reconsider the objections or adverse decisions to foreign workers on visas like H-1B due to the three policy memos by the previous Trump administration which now have been rescinded. The move is expected to come to the rescue of a large number of Indian IT professionals who were having a tough time during the previous Trump administration due to various policies and memorandums on non-immigrant work visas, in particular H-1B.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday announced “it may reopen and/or reconsider adverse decisions” on Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, made based on three rescinded policy memos.