NEW DELHI – India may get a worst blow from the United States as US islikely to end the H-4 Visa for overseas workers adversely affecting tens ofthousands of Indians either working in United States or aspiring to work inUS.
The Trump administration is planning to revoke a rule that makes spouses ofthousands of immigrant workers eligible to work while in the US, a movethat could impact tens of thousands of Indians.
H-4 visa is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantlylarge number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. They hadobtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous
Obama administration in 2015.
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The move to end the rule could have an impact on more than 70,000 H-4 visasholders, who have work permits.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its Unified Fall Agendareleased on Wednesday said it believed that abandoning the current practiceof granting employment authorisation to H-4 dependent spouses would benefitsome US workers.
