The Biden administration has announced a rule change on who can apply for a H-1B work visa, a key U.S. visa program that employs foreign workers in specialty occupations generally requiring a college degree.
A number of major U.S. technology companies use H-1B visas to find people to work jobs that are deemed hard to fill, namely in science, technology, engineering, and math.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, announced the final rule Tuesday that they say will enhance U.S. companies’ capacity to fill job vacancies in several fields by modernizing the H-1B program to streamline the approvals process.
“The H-1B program was created by Congress in 1990, and there’s no question it needed to be modernized to support our nation’s growing economy,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur M. Jaddou said in a statement. “The changes made in today’s final rule will ensure that U.S. employers can hire the highly skilled workers they need to grow and innovate while enhancing the integrity of the program.”
Under the rule that was just announced, governmental research organizations and nonprofit research organizations will have a new designation as entities that have a “fundamental activity” for research. […]
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