Spouses of H1B visa holders can work in US, rules court
Business Standard|March 31, 2023
A judge in the US has ruled that spouses of H1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are Indians, can work in the country, in a big relief to foreign workers in the American tech sector which has seen massive retrenchments.
LALIT K JHA
Spouses of H1B visa holders can work in US, rules court

The H1B 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.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed a lawsuit filed by Save Jobs USA which had approached the court to dismiss the Obama-era regulation that gave employment authorisation cards to spouses of certain categories of H1B visa holders.

Save Jobs USA is an organisation comprising IT workers who claim they lost their jobs to H1B workers.

Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft had opposed the lawsuit. The US has so far issued nearly 1,00,000 work authorisations to spouses of H-1B workers.

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