{"id":96758,"date":"2020-06-25T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=96758"},"modified":"2020-06-25T10:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:39:17","slug":"h1b-visa-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/h1b-visa-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"H1B visa suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Consider the following statement and choose the correct option:<br>(1) US has announced the suspension of H1-B visa for immigrants.<br>(2) The suspension will be valid for 2 years.<br>(3) H1-B visa is very popular among the India IT Professional for working in US.<br>Correct option:<\/strong><br>(a)1 and 3<br>(b)1 and 2<br>(c)2 and 3<br>(d)All of the above<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive order regarding suspension of H-1B visas, along with other foreign work visas for the rest of the year.<\/li><li>H4 visas (H-1B dependents), L visas (intra-company transfers), as well as H-2B (non-agricultural workers) and J visas will also be on hold through the year end.<\/li><li>The order was released on June 24 2020.<\/li><li>This decision will impact a large number of Indian IT professionals and several American and Indian companies whom H-1B visas were issued by the U.S. government for the 2021 fiscal year beginning on October 1 2020.<\/li><li>A large number of Indian IT professionals who are seeking H-1B visa renewal will also be impacted.<\/li><li>This decision was taken as the overall unemployment rate in the United States nearly quadrupled between February and May of 2020.<\/li><li>Workers coming through the H-1B, H-2B, J, and L non-immigrant visa programmes are therefore a significant threat to employment opportunities for Americans.<\/li><li>The new rule would apply only to those who are outside the U.S., do not have a valid non-immigrant visa and an official travel document other than a visa to enter the country.<\/li><li>This role would not however impact the lawful permanent residents of the United States and foreign nationals who are spouses or child of an American citizen.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By: Himanshu Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/reform-h-1b-visa-system-move-towards-merit-based-immigration-trump-to-officials\/article31895379.ece\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/reform-h-1b-visa-system-move-towards-merit-based-immigration-trump-to-officials\/article31895379.ece\/amp\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/trump-issues-proclamation-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-till-year-end\/article31895086.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/trump-issues-proclamation-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-till-year-end\/article31895086.ece\/amp\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statement and choose the correct option:(1) US has announced the suspension of H1-B visa for immigrants.(2) The suspension will be valid for 2 years.(3) H1-B visa is very popular among the India IT Professional for working in US.Correct option:(a)1 and 3(b)1 and 2(c)2 and 3(d)All of the aboveAnswer: (a)Related facts: U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96758","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=96758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96758\/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\/96759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96758"}],"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=96758"},{"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=96758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}