{"id":29209,"date":"2018-04-26T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=29209"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:52:31","slug":"us-lawmakers-protest-move-to-ban-h1b-spouse-work-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-lawmakers-protest-move-to-ban-h1b-spouse-work-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers protest move to ban H1B spouse work permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington<br \/>\nInfluential lawmakers and representatives of the American IT industry, including Facebook, have opposed the Trump administration\u2019s proposed plan to withdraw work permits to the spouses of H-1B visa holders, a majority of whom are Indian professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRescinding this rule and removing tens of thousands of people from the American workforce would be devastating to their families, and would hurt our economy,\u201d Silicon Valley-based FWD.US, founded by top IT firms like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, said in a report on Tuesday. The report also quoted a group of 15 top US lawmakers as saying: \u201cEliminating this benefit removes a key incentive for highly skilled immigrants to remain here to invest in and grow our economy to the benefit of all Americans\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Influential lawmakers and representatives of the American IT industry, including Facebook, have opposed the Trump administration\u2019s proposed plan to withdraw work permits to the spouses of H-1B visa holders, a majority of whom are Indian professionals. \u201cRescinding this rule and removing tens of thousands of people from the American workforce would be devastating to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29212,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29209\/revisions\/29212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}