In a move that particularly targets Indian tech workers and IT outsourcing companies, the Trump Administration on Friday announced stricter requirements for companies that rely on H-1B workers.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a new policy memo it will require “detailed documentation” about H-1B workers employed at third-party work sites to ensure employees are filling a specialty role for which they were hired.
The policy specifically targets smaller companies that are serving larger companies — or third parties — with their foreign employees.
H-1B is a non-immigrant U.S. visa that allows American companies to hire graduate-level foreign workers in specialty occupations, such as IT, finance, architecture, engineering and medicine, where there may be a shortage of suitably trained domestic employees.
Many tech firms say the visa is critical to ease a shortage of employees with highly technical skills, but outsourcing firms, accused by lawmakers of hiring cheaper, foreign labor, and “farming” them out to employers, have drawn particular ire.
“This policy memorandum makes clear that employers must provide contract and itineraries for employees who will work at a third-party location,” the memo said.
“For such third-party, off-site arrangements, additional corroborating evidence, such as contracts and work orders, may substantiate a petitioner’s claim of actual work in a specialty occupation.”
Source :- mercurynews
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a new policy memo it will require “detailed documentation” about H-1B workers employed at third-party work sites to ensure employees are filling a specialty role for which they were hired.
The policy specifically targets smaller companies that are serving larger companies — or third parties — with their foreign employees.
H-1B is a non-immigrant U.S. visa that allows American companies to hire graduate-level foreign workers in specialty occupations, such as IT, finance, architecture, engineering and medicine, where there may be a shortage of suitably trained domestic employees.
Many tech firms say the visa is critical to ease a shortage of employees with highly technical skills, but outsourcing firms, accused by lawmakers of hiring cheaper, foreign labor, and “farming” them out to employers, have drawn particular ire.
“This policy memorandum makes clear that employers must provide contract and itineraries for employees who will work at a third-party location,” the memo said.
“For such third-party, off-site arrangements, additional corroborating evidence, such as contracts and work orders, may substantiate a petitioner’s claim of actual work in a specialty occupation.”
Source :- mercurynews
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