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Trump admin toughens H1-B Visa procedure
H1 B Visa focus to attract the best and the brightest foreign talents
The Trump administration is working on proposals to streamline the H1-B visa procedure, the most sought-after by Indian IT professionals, to focus on attracting the best and the brightest foreign talents, according to a top federal agency official.
The proposed regulation also aims to intensify efforts to crack down on H1-B visa fraud, said Francis Cissna, US Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS) Director in a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley.
The H1-B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. USCIS is working on two proposed regulations to improve the H1-B programme. The first regulation proposes to establish an electronic registration programme for petitions subject to numerical limitations for the H1-B non-immigrant classification.
The second regulation will propose to revise the definition of specialty occupation, so as to increase focus on obtaining the best and the brightest foreign nationals via the H1-B programme and to revise the definition of employment and employer-employee relationship to better protect US workers and wages.
Department of Homeland Security will propose additional requirements designed to ensure employers pay appropriate wages to H1-B visa holders.
The USCIS is also drafting a proposed rule to remove the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), as announced in the regulatory agenda. Due to the court order which invalidated the IER delay rule, the International Entrepreneur Final rule is currently in effect.