Donald Trump Sets Wage Protections for U.S. Graduates
12 Jan 2021
President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor has released an updated set of rules to protect the wages of American graduates from the damage done by CEOs’ use of H-1B visa workers.
“The U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a January 12 statement. He added:
These changes help ensure that these important foreign worker programs function as Congress intended, while securing American workers’ opportunities for stable, good-paying jobs.
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Will Vietnamese student numbers in the US recover post-COVID?
Since the proof is usually in the statistical pudding, I periodically have a look at the Monthly Nonimmigrant Visa Issuance Statistics section of the United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Travel.State.Gov website to satisfy my curiosity about the number of F-1 (student) visas being issued to young Vietnamese, especially in the often lengthy interregnum between
SEVIS by the Numbers updates.
It provides the most up-to-date information about trends related to study in the USA from a government that is notoriously unreliable in these matters.
Not surprisingly, the contrast between 2019 and 2020 was striking. In the 2019 fiscal year ending on 30 September 2019, the US Embassy in Hanoi and the Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) issued a total of 16,829 student visas. A year later, on 30 September 2020, that number had plummeted to 5,718, a 66% decrease.