{"id":29740,"date":"2018-10-26T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:40:41","slug":"h-4-visa-move-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/h-4-visa-move-draws-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"H-4 visa move draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/h-4-visa-move-draws-criticism\/article23689021.ece\"><strong>H-4 visa move draws criticism<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several Democratic lawmakers oppose plan to scrap work permits for spouses of H-1B visa holders<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move by the Donald Trump administration to end work permits for spouses of H-1B visa holders is a regressive measure that would also adversely impact the American economy, according to several Democratic lawmakers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These lawmakers were speaking at an event hosted by the U.S.-India Friendship Council, an organisation led by prominent Indian American businessman Swadesh Chatterjee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender discrimination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also underscored the gender discriminatory impact of the move as most of the beneficiaries of the current rule that was enacted in 2015 are women<\/p>\n<p>H-4 is the category of visas allotted for spouses of H-1B visa holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-4 visa move draws criticism Context Several Democratic lawmakers oppose plan to scrap work permits for spouses of H-1B visa holders What has happened? The move by the Donald Trump administration to end work permits for spouses of H-1B visa holders is a regressive measure that would also adversely impact the American economy, according to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/h-4-visa-move-draws-criticism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">H-4 visa move draws criticism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704723855},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}