Trump enforces ban on H-1B visa for rest of 2020

Trump Administration has enforced temporary ban on the non-migrant visas like H1B, which allows large number of professionals from foreign countries to work in U.S, until the end of 2020.President Donald Trump on Monday has also decided to continue a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year.

Besides the H-1B, order also limits entry into the US of H-2B and L visas and their dependents till December 31, 2020. It also contains certain categories of J visas like an intern, trainee, teacher, camp counselor, or summer work travel program.

The declaration that becomes operative on June 24 will probably affect professionals who have theoretical or technical expertise from foreign countries to work in U.S. Almost 500,000 migrant professionals are employed in the US in the H-1B status.

The ban would also affect a large number of Indian IT professionals who are seeking renewal of their H-1B visas as the U.S diplomatic mission will conduct stamping only at the end of the current year.

“In the administration of our Nation’s immigration system, we must remain mindful of the impact of foreign workers on the United States labour market, particularly in the current extraordinary environment of high domestic unemployment and depressed demand for labour,” said the declaration issued by Trump.

More than 33 million Americans have lost their jobs in the last two months due to the coronavirus pandemic and the last month jobs report said that the unemployment rate in the US for the month of April rose to 14.7 per cent.

This is the highest rate and the largest over-the-month increase in the history of the series, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics said.