A US court has struck down key Trump administration memos and decisions behind soaring denial of H-1B visas, sending a wave of relief through IT services companies that use foreign workers, a large number of whom are from India. They have faced intense pushback and pressure in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court of a district judge in Washington DC on Tuesday struck down memos used by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to prevent companies from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas for third-party work outsourced operations in other words, and required employers to produce contract details for which the H-1B had been petitioned. The court also directed the agency to provide reasons while rejecting an H-1B petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA decision like this has been long overdue, we finally have the judicial system agreeing with the employers that USCIS has been out of bounds for a long time,\u201d said Amar Varada, president of ITServe, an association of more than 1,200 IT solutions and services organization, whose challenge led to the Tuesday ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States issues 85,000 H-1B visas annually to highly skilled foreign workers on petitions from US companies to make up for a shortage of locally available hands. Critics of the programme have argued it has been used to displace American workers by contracting out their work to foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Denial of initial applications for H-1B visas and renewal applications has gone up under the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cBuy American, Hire American\u201d policy. The National Foundation for American Policy , an independent body that closely tracks immigration issues, denial rates have generally risen from 6% in 2015 to 21% in 2019 for new petitions; and from 3% to 12% for continuing employment, renewals in other words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency also found that the denial rate for new employment had gone up to 30% in 2019 for IT services and consulting companies in comparison to between 2% and 7% for technology product companies such as Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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