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Synopsis The review by US President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to provide relief to companies that depend on computer science engineers from countries such as India. Getty Images PUNE: The United States will review a proposal that had sought increased wages for new H-1B visa applicants. The anti-immigrant measure -- Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States -- by the previous Donald Trump government would have increased H-1B wages by as much as 30%. The review by US President Joe Biden’s administration is...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021, immigration reform is on the near horizon. Employers are advised to stay abreast of fluid immigration policies that could have sweeping effects on the sponsorship of various foreign national workers.  In addition, several immigration rules promulgated in the final weeks of the Trump administration are now halted and could soon be reversed. In his first hours of presidency, President Biden instituted measures to delay some o...

and withdrawing all pending rules that had not yet been published in the  Federal Register. Under the Trump administration’s continued “Buy American and Hire American” policy, these late-enacted regulations were largely focused on continuing to restrict high-skilled worker visas by changing the H-1B lottery selection process, realigning the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) prevailing wage requirements to higher salary percentiles for H-1B visa holders, and placing additional obligations on both employers that place visa workers at third-party client sites and on the end-client com...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Apparently undeterred by prior litigation striking it down, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published another rule in the  Federal Register raising minimum wages for high-skilled workers. The  "Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States" Rule (Wage Protection Rule) will go into effect on March 15, 2021 and will start to affect H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 work visa cases, as well as PERM filings in July 2021. Employers spon...

U.S. Department of Labor DOL announced an updated final rule designed to increase prevailing wages required for certain visa processes, Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States.