US delays decision on work authorisation for spouses; needs four months to review decision
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The Trump administration has delayed its decision on termination of work authorisation for spouses of the H-1B visa holders, in a big relief to a significantly large number of Indian workers and their families.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a court submission this week said that it would not take a decision on terminating the work authorisation of H4 visa users, spouses of H-1B visa holders, till June as it needs time to review the economic impact of such a decision. Since 2015, the spouses of H-1B, or high-skilled, visa holders waiting for green cards have been eligible to work in the US on H-4 dependent visas, under a rule introduced by the previous Obama administration.
The DHS was previously scheduled to take a call on it by February 28. It said the revisions required a new economic analysis which required an additional several weeks. "Under the revised time-line, DHS anticipates submitting to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance the proposed rule in time for publication in June," it said.
The H-1B programme attracts foreign specialised workers to come to the United States for employment, many of them from India. "We want to believe that DHS is re-looking at this because of our efforts," Jansi Kumar, co-founder of the group Save H-4 EADs, told India-West, a local Indian newspaper from California. The court submission by DHS comes as part of a petition by Save Jobs USA, an organisation of IT workers who claim they lost their jobs to H-1B workers.
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