US Congress bills on H-I visas |
US President Donald Trump`s government focus on serious H-1B visa reforms has led to at least half a dozen bills being tabled in the US House of Representatives and the Senate. The US Congress Bills are promoted by both Republican and the Democratic parties who believe Indian techies and Indian IT companies tend to replace American workers. The argument is disputed by research scholars, economists and Silicon Valley executives. In less than a week of Trump being sworn in as the 45th US President, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, and Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin, introduced the "H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act" to prioritise American workers and restore fairness in visa programmes for skilled workers. The H1-B reform bill proposes to eliminate the lottery system and give foreign students educated in the US priority on visas. The bill would prohibit companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H-1B or L-1 holders, from hiring additional H-1B employees. It also explicitly prohibits the replacement of American workers by H-1B or L-1 visa holders. The bill among other things would also crackdown on outsourcing companies that import large numbers of H-1B and L-1 workers for temporary training purposes only to send the workers back to their home countries to do the same job.
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