US Govt blocks spouses of H1-B visa holders

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 01:17 PM

US Govt blocks spouses of H1-B visa holders

Washington Dec 16: In a move to further strengthen the H1- B Visa System tigther the US Government has decided to do away a former president Obama era rule that allowed spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the US.

Sources said that the move would impact only a small percentage of H-1B visa holders who were in the running for a Green Card.US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the agency for issuing visas has said that "it intends to do away with that rule and the move is in accordance with the Donald Trump administration's 'Buy American, Hire American' policy stance."

DHS has added that "This is being done to "to increase focus on truly obtaining the best and brightest foreign nationals,"

However, experts said that this move would affect Indian IT Industry because currently, many spouses of the employees would work on the dependent visas.

However American experts said that this move would ensure that visas would be issued only to qualified and better-equipped people and more Americans would get the jobs.