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Biden nixes Trump plan to kill H4 work permits - Huge relief for spouses of H -1B workers!

Posted on: 27/Jan/2021 4:00:47 PM
Biden nixes Trump plan to kill H4 work permits – Huge relief for spouses of H-1B workers!

The latest development brings to end years of effort by the Trump administration to rescind an ‘Obama era’ regulation that allowed a certain subset of spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the US.

With a single word – ‘Withdrawn’ - on a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration delivered a huge win for spouses of workers on H-1B visas in the US who spent the last four years worried sick that their work authorizations would be killed off.

Subsequently, chat groups and online threads, the outpouring of relief played out online on Tuesday evening (26th January) on the exchanged test messages!