Pres. Trump visits Kenosha for order signing

During a visit to Wisconsin on Tuesday, President Donald Trump ordered the review of the H-1B program.

President Donald Trump wants to overhaul a visa program that allows us companies to hire foreign workers, a move that could affect hundreds of MA companies from high-tech businesses to hospitals and colleges. It could also result in higher application fees. None responded to requests for comment.

“We already know H-1B visa abuse hurts American workers”.

“We are going to defend our workers, protect our jobs and finally put America first”, declared Trump at a rally in Wisconsin. Many Trump products are produced overseas, and he has hired foreign workers at his properties including at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Palm Beach, Fla., which has become his frequent base of operations on weekends.

The latest executive order comes at a time when the businessman-turned-politician is nearing his 100th day in office, looking to regain momentum on the domestic front after his flagship travel ban was blocked in court and his vaunted health reform foundered in Congress. And any changes to the work visa process is bad news for India’s $150bn IT service industry. But an H-1B review is overdue. The government procurement section did. The H-1B visa program allots temporary visa to foreign workers with specialized skills to fill in some gaps in the working industry, mostly in IT and Engineering, according to Business Insider.

“Whether it’s removing job-killing regulations, protecting our borders, or unleashing American energy, we are keeping our promises and delivering for the American Worker”. But said the problem is the visas are awarded in a random lottery.

“We would encourage changes to the H-1B visas program”, IBM CFO Martin Schroeter told CNBC in an interview.

These forthcoming administrative and legislative measures will specially target the H-1B visa programme under which Indian technology companies bring thousands of computer professionals to the US every year.

“I applaud President Trump for his efforts to spur job creation, economic growth, and American competitiveness by improving our countrys high-skilled immigration programmes, ? said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte”. Among the guidelines, computer programmes with no additional qualification will not be acceptable as “speciality occupation”.

Regarding the most-skilled workers, there is already a set-aside of 20,000 of the 85,000 new visas available, for those who have earned advanced degrees from USA universities.

In this year’s lottery, the government got 199,000 applications in less than a week for 85,000 available visas. Under the current system, visas are awarded on a lottery basis, which critics say has led to exploitation by firms who use the program to hire lower paid employees. “They should be given to the most skilled and highest paid applicants, and they should never, ever be used to replace Americans”. More than 15% of Facebook Inc’s United States employees used a temporary work visa in 2016. Facebook did not respond to requests for comment. These workers receive a non-immigrant visa that can last as long as six years.

The US president can not, by a simple decree, change the number of visas allocated.

The H-1B visa is a good thing in many cases.