{"id":21629,"date":"2017-02-06T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=21629"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:39:04","slug":"h-1b-visa-reform-bill-introduced-us-house-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/h-1b-visa-reform-bill-introduced-us-house-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives, according to this bill what is the proposed minimum salary of H-1B visa holders?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 80 thousand US dollars<br \/>\n(b) 1.30 million US dollars<br \/>\n(c) 60 thousand US dollars<br \/>\n(d) 1 million US dollars<br \/>\n<strong>Ans. (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 30 January 2017 H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<li>High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren.<\/li>\n<li>This priorities market based allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200 per cent of a wage calculated by survey, eliminates the category of lowest pay.<\/li>\n<li>It also raises the salary level at which H-1B dependent employer are exempt from non displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than USD 130,000.<\/li>\n<li>This is more than double of the current H-1B minimum wage of USD 60,000 which was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H).<\/li>\n<li>It allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations.<\/li>\n<li>If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest impact will be on the Indian IT companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/h-1b-visa-reform-bill-introduced-in-us-house-of-representatives\/articleshow\/56888616.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/h-1b-visa-reform-bill-introduced-in-us-house-of-representatives\/articleshow\/56888616.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/nri\/visa-and-immigration\/trump-government-tables-new-h-1b-bill-techies-it-firms-brace-for-tough-future\/articleshow\/56887602.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/nri\/visa-and-immigration\/trump-government-tables-new-h-1b-bill-techies-it-firms-brace-for-tough-future\/articleshow\/56887602.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/money\/report-the-high-skilled-integrity-and-fairness-act-of-2017-2303400\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/money\/report-the-high-skilled-integrity-and-fairness-act-of-2017-2303400<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US House of Representatives, according to this bill what is the proposed minimum salary of H-1B visa holders? (a) 80 thousand US dollars (b) 1.30 million US dollars (c) 60 thousand US dollars (d) 1 million US dollars Ans. (b) Related facts: On 30 January 2017 H-1B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}