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<ul><li>Spouses of <keyword id="6358066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="h-1b-visa">H-1B visa</keyword> holders are issued the H-4 visa in the US.</li><li>Indians constitute 80 percent of the 125,000 H-4 visas issued in 2015. </li><li>US wants to make this change to prevent “US workers from being displaced by foreign workers”.</li></ul>After making the process of attaining an H-1B visa harder, the <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> administration seems to be focusing on scrapping work permits for H-4 visa holders. The <keyword id="2743235" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="United-States-Citizenship-and-Immigration-Services">United States Citizenship and Immigration Services</keyword> (USCIS) has backed that claim reasserting that they plan on getting rid of the provision that allows H-4 visa holders to work in the country. H-4 visa holders are basically dependents of the H-1B visa holders. And, currently, the largest beneficiaries of H-4 visas are Indians. They constitute <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/19/silicon-valley-wives-women-visa-immigration-work">80 percent</a> of the 125,000 H-4 visas issued back in 2015. Step back and you can see how such a move would impact women immigrants since <a href="http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/05/20/wives-of-silicon-valleys-immigrant-engineers-speak-of-loneliness-and-frustration/">one out of ten</a> H-4 visas are issued to females. Lee Francis <keyword id="4395926" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="cissna">Cissna</keyword>, Director of the USCIS, wrote a letter to <keyword id="331434" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Charles-E-Grassley">Charles E Grassley</keyword>, Chairman of the <keyword id="220224" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Judiciary-Committee">Judiciary Committee</keyword>, stating, “..our plans include proposing regulatory changes to remove H-4 dependent spouses from the class of aliens eligible for employment authorisation, thereby reversing the 2015 final rule that granted such eligibility.” This decision would force the H-4 visa holders back into, what were <a href="http://thesouthasiantimes.info/index.php?param=news/19356/USA/34">called</a>, their ‘Golden Cages’. It was a metaphor for being able to live in the US but without the right to work within the country or get a social security number. The situation was corrected two years ago, when the <keyword id="16284" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Obama">Obama</keyword> administration passed a ruling that gave H-4 visa holders the provision to seek employment while they waited for their green card to be approved. Reports <a href="https://qz.com/1260345/h-4-visa-the-trump-administration-reiterates-itll-scrap-work-permits-for-h-1b-spouses/">suggest</a> that visa trouble won’t stop with H-1B and H-4 visas but also spill over onto the L-1B visa, which is issued to professionals with specialised knowledge. USCIS’ Cissna assures that the only reason any of this is happening is ”...to prevent US workers from being displaced by foreign workers.”

Spouses of H-1B visa holders may lose work permits in the US

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">ReutersHomeland Security chief on Thursday questioned whether Russia interfered in the US presidential election to help President Donald Trump win, contradicting the assessment of the US intelligence community.</div></div></div><ul><li>Sixty CEOs have sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denouncing policy changes they say are harming their companies' immigrant workers.</li><li>The executives named several recent changes that make it more challenging for highly skilled foreign workers to renew or apply for visas, or obtain green cards.</li><li>The letter said that ultimately these changes will make life more difficult for their immigrant employees, and likely force them to take their talents elsewhere.</li></ul>Dozens of prominent CEOs have sent a <a href="https://www.businessroundtable.org/sites/default/files/letters/Immigration.Nielsen%20Letter%2008232018.pdf?te=1&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;emc=edit_dk_20180824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen denouncing several recent changes to immigration policies that they say have stoked fear among their employees and could ultimately harm US businesses.The letter named 60 executives - including Apple's Tim Cook, JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, BlackRock's Larry Fink, and IBM's Ginni Rometty - and warned the Trump administration that its policies will prompt highly skilled immigrants to take their talents elsewhere."As the federal government undertakes its legitimate review of immigration rules, it must avoid making changes that disrupt the lives of thousands of law-abiding and skilled employees, and that inflict substantial harm on US competitiveness," the letter read.Over the last year and a half, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, agency has implemented a host of changes to the country's legal immigration system that, in many cases, make it more difficult to apply for or renew work visas, or obtain a green card.The CEOs pointed to several key changes they said were negatively affecting thousands of employees:<ul><li>Inconsistency from immigration officers in <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memoranda/2017/2017-10-23Rescission-of-Deference-PM6020151.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vetting visa applications</a> from workers who have had previous visas approved. "Now, any adjudicator can disagree with multiple prior approvals without explanation," the CEOs wrote.</li><li>Allowing immigration officers to <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memoranda/AFM_10_Standards_for_RFEs_and_NOIDs_FINAL2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immediately deny visa applications</a> without first notifying the companies and applicants and without asking for potentially missing information to be submitted. "Companies now do not know whether a work visa petition that was approved last month will be approved when the company submits the identical application to extend the employee's status," the letter said.</li><li>The looming <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-04-04%20USCIS%20to%20CEG%20-%20Buy%20America%2C%20Hire%20America%20update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elimination of H-4 visas</a>, which are currently used by the spouses of skilled immigrant workers. "These spouses are often highly skilled in their own rights and have built careers and lives around their ability to contribute to companies here," the letter said.</li><li><a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memoranda/2018/2018-06-28-PM-602-0050.1-Guidance-for-Referral-of-Cases-and-Issuance-of-NTA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deporting immigrants</a> whose visa renewal or green card applications are denied while they're living in the US. The CEOs said many of their employees fear being deported "even if they have complied with immigration laws and intend to promptly depart the country."</li></ul><h2>'Now is not the time to restrict access to talent'</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float-right"><div><div class="image on-image">Associated Press/Marcio Jose SanchezApple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 4, 2018, in San Jose, Calif.</div></div></div>The CEOs noted that many of the employees affected by these changes have not only worked in the US for years and followed US immigration laws, but they possess valuable skills that cannot easily be found among American workers."At a time when the number of job vacancies are reaching historic highs due to labor shortages, now is not the time restrict access to talent," the letter said.USCIS has defended many of the policy changes by arguing they "protect the interests of United States workers" or "discourage frivolous or substantially incomplete" applications.But the agency has come under fire previously for what some perceived as hostility towards legal immigrants. USCIS Director Lee Francis Cissna stoked controversy in February when he dropped the term "nation of immigrants" from the agency's mission statement."Who does the agency serve? I think there's been a misunderstanding of that one the years," <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/uscis-says-trump-was-not-the-reason-it-dropped-nation-of-immigrants-from-mission-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cissna said last week</a>. "People kind of naturally fall into the belief that the individuals that we serve are the people that we interact with every day when we take applications or petitions. I don't think that we serve them. We serve the people." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-to-north-korea-defector-2018-8">A North Korean defector's harrowing story of escape</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Tim Cook, Jamie Dimon, and dozens of other CEOs are warning the Trump administration that its immigration policies are inflicting 'substantial harm'

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/senate-judiciary-committee-chairman-sen-chuck-grassley-news-photo/1046030768">Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</a>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has publicly disagreed with President Donald Trump multiples times over the past two weeks.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley has been increasingly critical of President Donald Trump and his administration in recent weeks. </li><li>Grassley's latest rebuke of the Trump administration comes after the ousting of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and the broader shakeup of the agency she's leaving.</li><li>"The president has to have some stability and particularly with the number one issue that he's made for his campaign, throughout his two and a half years of presidency," Grassley said on Monday.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories</a></li></ul>President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, one of the most powerful members of the Senate, are in a bit of a tiff at the moment.Grassley has quite publicly gone against Trump several times over the past two weeks, increasingly putting himself at odds with the president. Last week, Grassley referred to Trump as "idiotic" after the president suggested that wind turbines cause cancer.Subsequently, Grassley said he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-grassley-defies-trump-supports-release-of-mueller-report-2019-4">supported releasing special counsel Robert Mueller's report</a> on Russian election interference. Trump initially said he was OK with the report being released, but more recently said those calling for it to be made public are a "disgrace." Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grassley-trump-wind-turbines-cause-cancer-idiotic-2019-4"> Top Republican senator says Trump's suggestion that wind turbines cause cancer is 'idiotic'</a>The latest disagreement stems from the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kirstjen-nielsen-departure-signals-trump-wants-more-extreme-dhs-chief-2019-4">ousting of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen</a> and the broader shakeup of the agency she's departing. Grassley spoke out against the churn within the Trump administration and took jabs at one of his senior advisers - Stephen Miller.Grassley <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grassley-warns-white-house-not-to-oust-any-more-top-immigration-officials/2019/04/08/0b896e26-5a55-11e9-b8e3-b03311fbbbfe_story.html?utm_term=.87c512ddfc20#click=https://t.co/5a4oldKND7">told The Washington Post</a> that those who've been removed from Homeland Security, as well as those who are reportedly on the verge of being asked to leave, are "good public servants." "Secondly, besides the personal connection I have with them and the qualifications they have, they are the intellectual basis for what the president wants to accomplish in immigration," the senator added. Grassley said he was "very, very concerned," in particular, over reports that Lee Francis Cissna, the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, will be part of Trump's purge of the agency. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netanyahu-asked-trump-iran-military-force-terrorist-group-2019-4">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he asked Trump to label Iran's elite military force a terrorist group</a>"The president has to have some stability and particularly with the number one issue that he's made for his campaign, throughout his two and a half years of presidency," Grassley said. "He's pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal."Speaking on Miller, the senator added, "I think it would be hard for him to demonstrate he's accomplished anything for the president."Grassley was asked by The Post to expand on his comments about Miller, to which he responded, "It's pretty hard to elaborate on it when there hasn't been any accomplishments." Miller has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/stephen-miller-family-separation/563132/">been the architect</a> of the more extreme aspects of Trump's immigration agenda and was reportedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-stephen-miller-trump-speechwriter-immigration-adviser-2018-1">central to decision making behind Nielsen's ousting</a>. When asked about Grassley's concerns with the departures, a spokesperson said that the senator raised the issue with the members of the White House."Sen. Grassley hasn't spoken to the president directly on this issue but has expressed his concerns to White House staff," Michael Zona, Grassley's communications director, told INSIDER.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from INSIDER.The Iowa senator is the president pro Tempore of the Senate, which makes him the second highest-ranking official in the chamber and third in line to succeed to the presidency after the vice president and House Speaker.Grassley has been in the Senate since 1981 and wields significant influence in Washington and in the GOP, which makes his public rebukes of a Republican president notable. Trump's approach to governing has often put him at odds with members of his own party, and top Republicans have spoken out against him on everything from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/khashoggi-death-trumps-approach-to-the-case-alienates-him-from-gop-2018-10">US policy toward Saudi Arabia</a> to his decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funding for a border wall.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-immigration-hardliner-is-the-descendent-of-refugees-2018-6">Stephen Miller, the Trump aide behind the harshest immigration policies, is a descendant of asylum-seekers</a>Grassley initially <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-republican-lawmakers-worried-trump-national-emergency-border-wall-2019-1">spoke out in opposition of Trump's national emergency</a> and warned of the precedent it would set, but ultimately voted against a resolution to block the emergency declaration. A dozen Republicans voted in favor of the measure, directly contradicting the president's position. The senator's issues with Trump only seem to be escalating, and given his influence this could translate into more tension between the president and Republicans in Congress - especially as Trump moves to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reimplement-migrant-family-separations-executive-order-2019-4">implement his overhaul of the US immigration system.</a>Grassley's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from INSIDER. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-stadia-video-game-streaming-platform-console-event-watch-2019-3">Watch Google's Stadia video-game-platform event in 5 minutes</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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