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Trump Administration vergibt keine H-1B Visa

By Duncan Mil

June 22, 2020 - Präsident Donald Trump lässt nicht länger die begehrten H-1B Visa vergeben, die es hochqualifizierten Ausländern / Akademikern ermöglichten, in den Vereinigten Staaten bis zu sechs Jahre zu leben und zu arbeiten. Die US vergaben pro Jahr höchstens 85.000 H-1B Visa.

The H-1B is a temporary visa category that allows employers to petition the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for highly educated foreign professionals to work in “speciality occupations” that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent.

Before an employer can file a petition with USCIS, the employer must take steps to ensure that hiring the foreign worker will not harm U.S. workers.

Of the 85,000 H-1B visas, around 70 per cent go to Indian workers, mostly in information technology (IT) services.

Among U.S. technology firms, Amazon, Microsoft and Google alone had some 20,000 H-1B petitions approved in the 2019 fiscal year, followed by Facebook and Apple at more than 7,000 visas.

A majority of the most valuable public U.S. technology companies have an immigrant as the founder or chief executive. Migrants have founded almost one in two, 48 per cent, of U.S. unicorns -- startups valued at more than $1 billion.

However, since President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” executive order in April 2017, the rate of denials for H-1B visas has surged from 13 per cent to 32 per cent, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy.

One possibility under consideration would restrict people from entering the U.S. on the H1-B programme for as long as 180 days, Bloomberg News reported on June 21.

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PUBLISHED: 23/06/2020; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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