President Trump’s administration was killed on Friday with a federal trial Searching A $ 100,000 fee On the new H -1B visa for highly skilled international employees.
trialThe US District Court is led by a coalition of religious organizations, health care providers, unions, higher education professionals and others in the northern district of California.
Democracy forward Said In the press release. “The suit asks the court to immediately block the order and restore the prediction for employers and workers.”
Tusrap An announcement Increasing the fee on H1-B visa on 19 September, up to $ 100,000, arguing that the program has been exploited to replace Americans with American-born workers, which are less paid. After days, the White House said $ 100,000 is one One time fee H-1B applicants and people with visa for the future will not have to pay the fee again to enter the US
“By discouraging the best and talented minds around the world – personally who has enriched American higher education for decades – he has been sending a message: ‘You don’t welcome here. Go somewhere else,” Todd Wolfson, Chairman of the American Association of University Professors. wrote Friday.
This short-sighted policy does not just hurt universities-this research causes damage to every American by slowing down our economy, weakening our economy and risking our global leadership.
Critics of H -1B visa program, which were designed by the Congress to attract highly skilled workers from abroad, argue that it is a way for American companies to appoint foreign origin workers who are open to work much below the market value, especially in the technical field.
With this type of visa, there are about one third of the workers, teachers, doctors, scholars, priests and pastors, according to the trial. Many H -1B visa holders work in the technology sector, but there are more than one -third of all H -1B workers, according to the trial.
White House spokesman Abigail Jackson told Reuters that administration are engaged in legitimate tasks “discouraging companies by spaming the system and running American wages, while providing certainty to employers who need to bring the best talent from abroad.”
H -1B visas are valid for three years and according to it, can be extended up to six US citizenship and immigration services (Uscis). Congress, in 2005, Shadow Approval for visas in 65,000 per financial year, exemption was given for workers with advanced US degree with additional 20,000 approval.
Trump administration is Demand for improvement How the system works, looking at American businesses and agencies to encourage more high efficient and highly paid foreign workers.
