Goggle is joined by 30 other companies to support the H-4 EAD ((Employment Authorisation Document) programme. An H-4 visa is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to immediate family members (spouse and children under 21 years of age) of the H-1B visa holders. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. Google is proud to support our nation s immigrants. We joined 30 other companies to protect the H-4 EAD programme which spurs innovation, creates jobs and opportunities, and helps families, Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted.
Washington [US], May 14 (ANI): Google and other tech companies on Friday (local time) defended work visas for spouses of highly skilled tech immigrants
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Almost 30 tech companies are pushing back against the proposed block of H-4 visas, which allow H-1B holders’ spouses to work in the US.
Tech companies in the US have rallied to protect a law that permits spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the country. Google, which is leading the group, submitted an amicus brief outlining the importance of the law to the Department of Homeland Security today (14 May) in relation to an ongoing case between the department and Save Jobs USA.
Immigration advocates sounded the alarm after the Biden administration’s first list of new immigration court picks was filled entirely by judges selected under former President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department last week released a list of 17 new immigration judges, who decide whether to grant asylum claims or deport migrants. “The 17 new immigration judges referenced in the notice all received their conditional offers under the prior administration,” a DOJ spokesperson told
The Hill, despite President Biden’s vow to undo his predecessor’s damage to the country’s immigration system.
Trump cut funding to the immigration courts during his four years in office and limited how much control immigration judges have over their own dockets, barring them from allowing migrants with pending cases to remain in the country indefinitely. His administration also launched an aggressive enforcement strategy at the border and reopened hundreds of thousands of low-priority cases tha
In my presentation, the top two points are the right to vote and the protection from deportation. I kind of go back and forth on which one should be number one and which one should be number two, McNamara says. The info night is to educate people on the citizenship process.
At the May 15 workshop, participants will be paired with immigration lawyers or Department of Justice-accredited immigration representatives who can help them fill out and review their whole citizenship application in free two-hour blocks. We find out what they need. Obviously, a lot of cases are perfect and ready to go, in which case I’ll print out the application, all the supporting evidence, sign it as the preparer, and mail it to the applicant to submit for themselves, McNamara says. If there s a tax issue or a criminal-history issue, we can either refer them internally to one of our grant programs if they live in Denver or we refer them out to a low-bono [discounted] attorney from the American Immi