{"id":117658,"date":"2017-12-16T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T10:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117658"},"modified":"2017-12-16T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T10:01:20","slug":"trouble-h1b-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/trouble-h1b-spouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble for H1B spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is set to propose revoking a rule that makes spouses of thousands of H1-B visa holders eligible to work while in the US, potentially complicating a major driver of technology jobs, the media reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-117659 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1.jpg\" alt=\"  Trouble for H1B spouses \" width=\"703\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2015, the spouses of H-1B, or high-skilled, visa holders waiting for green cards have been eligible to work in the US on H-4 dependent visas, under a rule introduced by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration, media reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tech sector is a major employer of H-1B visa holders. The Department of Homeland Security said that it intended to do away with the rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-117660 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/obama-fake-news-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"    Trouble for H1B spouses \" width=\"592\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the department did not explain its reasons in the announcement, saying that it was only acting &#8220;in light of&#8221; the &#8220;Buy American, Hire American&#8221; executive order that Trump had signed in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is set to propose revoking a rule that makes spouses of thousands of H1-B visa holders eligible to work while in the US, potentially complicating a major driver of technology jobs, the media reported. Since 2015, the spouses of H-1B, or high-skilled, visa holders waiting for green cards have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[82,1843,19840,1560,60474,1233,9721,60475],"class_list":["post-117658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-april","tag-donald-trump","tag-h1b","tag-media","tag-trouble-for-h1b-spouses","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-visa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e1-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}