'To protect Americans': US tightens rules for issuing work visas

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced changes to the H-1B work visa program. The innovation, according to the department, is aimed at protecting American workers. This is stated in a message on the DHS website. The H-1B program is designed to help employers ...

Trump signs decree drastically restricting the hiring of foreign workers

The White House emphasizes that it will not tolerate the replacement of Americans with cheap foreign labor, writes Voice of America. US President Donald Trump on Monday, August 3, signed an order on priority hiring of Americans, designed to prevent the replacement of American workers with foreign ones. As emphasized in...

Trump will suspend the issue of certain categories of visas until the end of the year

U.S. President Donald Trump will expand the existing visa ban to include certain nonimmigrant work visas as part of measures to protect U.S. workers amid the economic turmoil associated with the coronavirus pandemic, a senior administration official said on Monday, June 22, writes ...

Hundreds of thousands of work visa holders have lost their legal status in the USA: what's next

Back in April, we wrote that hundreds of thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas could lose their legal status by June. For many of them, this day has come, writes Bloomberg. H-1B visas are temporary work permits that...

Trump may suspend the issue of work visas: who will be affected by restrictions

The proposed suspension of the issuance of H-1B work visas could extend to the new fiscal year, which begins October 1, NDTV writes. US President Donald Trump is considering suspending the issuance of a number of work visas, in particular H-1B, due to massive unemployment in America due to ...

NYT: Trump may prohibit the issuance of work visas to foreign students and professionals

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to stop immigration as Americans face staggeringly high unemployment rates as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The president's plan includes a ban on temporary visas for skilled foreign workers and foreign students who enroll ...

Coronavirus and immigrants: what holders of work visas need to know during a pandemic

The coronavirus quarantine has created a lot of problems for immigrants. Those who are in the United States on work visas are faced with many questions and troubles. WorkPermit website writes about how they can be solved. The United States has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Currently registered in the States ...

USCIS Completes H-1B Work Visa Application Lottery

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received a sufficient number of electronic registrations during the initial period to reach the required number of applications for the distribution of H-1B work visas for the 2021 fiscal year, according to the official website of the department. USCIS randomly selected applications that ...

USCIS Launches H-1B Online Visa Lottery: How to Register

On December 6, 2019, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service announced that it plans to introduce an electronic registration system for H-1B work visa applicants for the 2021 fiscal year, recalls the official USCIS website. From March 1, 2020, the procedure came into force: now ...

How ours earn on compatriots-illegal immigrants in America

Announcement in a Russian-speaking group in California: “Nanny. From $2300 per month.” A governess is often sought under these conditions. What's the catch here? As a rule, such a vacancy is offered either by an agency or by a person who “sells” a nanny directly to the family for $5000-6000. Eventually,…

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