Trump creating more hurdles for H-IB visa holders |
The Trump administration is creating greater hurdles for H-1B visa holders to be employed and retained by their U.S. companies by dramatically stepping up its numbers of Requests For Evidence. Requests For Evidence – RFEs – issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are demands for additional proof to determine whether an employee is eligible for an H-1B visa. Uncommonly this year, a greater number of RFEs have been requested of H-1B holders who are renewing their applications. The H-1B visa is accorded to highly-skilled foreign workers. Earlier, only 11 percent of H-1B applications were subjected to RFE scrutiny. More than 97 percent of applications were approved. This year, as of November, USCIS has asked for additional evidence for almost 47 percent of H-1B applications. About 82 percent of applications have been approved. Los Colinas, Texas immigration attorney John Lawit, who manages a large number of Indian H-1B applicants, told India-West that 46 percent was a conservative number. Since the advent of the Trump administration, almost all of his caseload has had requests for evidence, in some cases, two and three requests for the same application. Los Colinas in North Texas has one of the largest concentration of Fortune 100 campuses in the nation, and about 2,000 companies overall.
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