{"id":99284,"date":"2021-04-02T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=99284"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:19:09","slug":"us-president-to-remove-the-ban-on-h-1b-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-president-to-remove-the-ban-on-h-1b-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"US President to Remove the Ban on &#8220;H-1B Visa&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2020 the US President imposed a ban on H-1B visa. The current US President decided to reverse the ban. So he allows a 2020 ban to expire on March 31st.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the 2020 Ban on H1-B skilled workers:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2020, the previous US President signed an executive order suspending the entry of H-1B and other foreign work visa holders.<\/li>\n<li>This decision was to protect the American jobs after the Covid-19 pandemic impacts. However, the ban did not have its intended impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Why did the President then let the executive order expire?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Though the H-1B visa allows cheap labour in the US, they are beneficial to US companies. It is helpful in getting inexpensive but highly skilled and trained workers.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, the US President has decided to reverse the ban to allow companies to hire new workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Impact of this decision on the Indian IT industry:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The US government <\/strong>has a cap of 85,000 total H-1B visas for each year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Among these, <\/strong>65,000 H-1B visas are issued to highly skilled foreign workers. The rest 20,000 can be additionally allotted to highly skilled foreign workers having a higher education or master\u2019s degree from a US university.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian IT companies <\/strong>are among the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-it-workers-to-benefit-from-u-s-immigration-act\/\">biggest beneficiaries of the US H-1B visa<\/a> regime. Since the 1990s they have the highest share in the total number of visas issued each year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence, this decision <\/strong>will mean the availability of a greater workforce for the IT companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>About H-1B visa:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>H1-B<\/strong> is a non-immigrant visa. It allows US companies to employ foreign workers on the basis of theoretical or technical expertise.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-tweaks-h1b-visa-rules-higher-wage-is-key-factor-now\/\">H-1B visa<\/a>s <\/strong>are generally approved for a period of three years for a person. But many visa holders change employers to extend their US stay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further<\/strong>, most IT companies in the US hire from the pool of H 1B visa-approved workers. As they are already present in the US to keep their costs in check. Such workers are often hired by the companies as subcontractors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/indian-it-professionals-to-benefit-as-biden-lets-trump-era-h-1b-visa-bans-expire\/article34212104.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? In 2020 the US President imposed a ban on H-1B visa. The current US President decided to reverse the ban. So he allows a 2020 ban to expire on March 31st. About the 2020 Ban on H1-B skilled workers: In 2020, the previous US President signed an executive order suspending the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-president-to-remove-the-ban-on-h-1b-visa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US President to Remove the Ban on &#8220;H-1B Visa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-99284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700781850,"cached_date":1704795173},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99284","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}