{"id":64142,"date":"2019-06-21T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=64142"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:08:35","slug":"us-has-no-plans-to-cap-h-1b-work-visa-program-state-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-has-no-plans-to-cap-h-1b-work-visa-program-state-department\/","title":{"rendered":"US has no plans to cap H-1B work visa program: State Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has no plans to cap H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, the State Department said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters reported on Wednesday that the United States had told India it was considering restricting the H-1B visa programs for countries with the data storage requirement. The H-1B program issues US visas to skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is \u201ccompletely separate from our ongoing discussions with India about the importance of ensuring the free flow of data across borders,\u201d the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier on Thursday, India said it was in talks with the United States on H-1B visas, but foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told a news conference: \u201cWe have not heard anything officially from the US government\u201d on capping such permits for Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While an administration\u2019s \u201cBuy American Hire American\u201d executive order calls for a broad review of US worker visa programs, including the H-1B program, it was not targeted at a specific country, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two senior Indian officials told Reuters on Wednesday they had been briefed last week on a US plan to cap the number of H-1B visas given annually to Indians at between 10% and 15% of the total number issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has no plans to cap H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, the State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64142","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\/64142","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=64142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64144,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64142\/revisions\/64144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}