US President Donald Trump is bulldozing all with his sensational decisions. After coming to power handing over shocking defeat to people's favourite Hillary Clinton, he is wasting no time to fulfill his poll promises.
In the last couple of days he has taken a decision to build wall at US -Mexico border and banned people of 7 muslim nations from entering into the country. He is unmoved with the wide spread protests against his decision.
Now Trump signed new executive order on H1 B visas and this will surely dent the Indian IT sector. The executive order drafted by the Trump Administration not only strangulates H-1B and L1 visas, but also increases inspection and ends employment authorisation cards to spouses on such work visas, which was recently introduced by the previous Obama Administration.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said "I think with respect to H1Bs and other visa is part of a larger immigration reform effort that the President will continue to talk about through executive order and through working with Congress,"
He went on to add "You've already seen a lot of action on immigration and I think whether it's that or the spousal visas or other type of visas, I think there's an overall need to look at all of these programmes. You'll see both through executive action and through comprehensive measures a way to address immigration as a whole and the visa programme,"
Within 90 days of the signing of the executive order, the Secretary of Homeland Security would have to review all regulations that allow foreign nationals to work in the US and determine which of those regulations violate the immigration laws or are not in the national interest of America.
The new bill introduced in the House of Representatives seeks to double the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to USD 130,000, making it difficult for firms to use the programme to replace American employees with foreign workers, including from India.
