Washington. Prior to the US presidential elections (Donald Trump), Trump took several controversial decisions related to H-1B visas, which were part of a broader agenda to curb all forms of immigration. The purpose of taking these decisions was to make it difficult for foreign workers including Indians to get visas and cut the number of visas. US District Judge Jeffrey S. of the Northern District of California In relation to visas, White ruled that these changes were taken in haste and that transparency rules were not followed when taking them, and not enough notice was also given for public comments.
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The purpose of Trump was to cut special businesses
The changes to apply to the H-1B visa program announced in October include the imposition of pay-related rules on companies employing skilled foreign workers and cuts on special occupations. The Department of Homeland Security officials considered these rules to be important due to the loss of jobs due to coronovirus and it has been estimated that in recent years one-third of those applying for H-1B have been denied under these new rules Would have been given
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Judge Geoffrey White said in his decision that transparency was not followed when making these decisions, and the Trump government argues that these decisions are common in the Corona epidemic. The jobs were taken on the go, the head is a lie and baseless because there was talk of taking such ideas from long ago, but they were taken shortly before the elections. Judge White also said that the Kovid-19 pandemic is an incident beyond the control of the defendants but it was under the control of the defendants that they would have acted in time. The judge clearly meant that Corona was being made only as an excuse.
The H-1B rules, announced weeks before the election, were part of President Donald Trump’s broader agenda to curb all forms of immigration. In June, he also issued an order to temporarily suspend the H-1B program by the end of the year. The US Chamber of Commerce and several universities such as the California Institute of Technology sued in California. He argued that the public was not given enough time to comment or think about these changes.
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The US issues 85,000 new H-1B visas every year. More than 70% of them go to Indian professionals hired by American professionals such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft and Indian IT services companies such as TCS, Wipro and Infosys.
