” is dated July 17, 2017, evidence the documents reflect the Trump administration’s new immigration policies.
As plaintiffs argued in a lawsuit, a February 2018 USCIS memo contradicts a 1998 law. Employers can place H-1B employees in a “nonproductive status” when there is “a lack of work,” according to the law. An employer only needs to keep paying the H-1B employee his or her full salary during such times. In contrast, USCIS insists employers show potentially years of signed contracts and specific work assignments.
Implementation of March 31, 2017 Memo, Rescission of the December 22, 2000 ‘Guidance memo on H-1B computer-related-positions’
“... part of an effort by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to achieve desired results – fewer high-skilled foreign nationals working in America.” The President is INTENTIONALLY MAKING OUR WORKFORCE LESS SKILLED. This is so ridiculous, I don’t know where to start
These good IT jobs should be going to Americans. Stop outsourcing.
you leave out the part of how these companies abuse the H1B program to pay the immigrants one third of what a qualifies citizen would be paid.... and that there are plenty of qualifies US citizen applicants. Also if the abuse were stopped more students would enter the field.