What good news does Joe Biden have for India !
US President Joe Biden has withdrawn a rule of Trump's era and rescinded work authorisation for H4 visa holders, who are spouses of women owning H-1B work visas, whose majority includes highly-skilled Indian women.
The Weekly Mail Team 
Joe Biden administration takes a move for spouses of those having H-1B visas.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that is used by US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
US President Joe Biden has withdrawn a rule of Trump's era and rescinded work authorisation for H4 visa holders, who are spouses of women owning H-1B work visas, whose majority includes highly-skilled Indian women.
An H-4 visa is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to immediate family members (spouse and children under 21 years of age) of the H-1B visa holders, most of whom are Indian IT professionals.
H-1B visa is the base of the technology companies on which it hires tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.
On Monday ,the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) said the proposed rule titled, "Removing H-4 Dependent Spouses from the Class of Aliens Eligible for Employment Authorisation," was being withdrawn.
"We respectfully request that the Department of Homeland Security publish a Federal Register notice on day one of your administration that would extend the validity period of all expired H4 EADs (Employment Authorisation Document)," the members of Congress wrote to Biden in a letter on December 16.
In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule allowing certain H4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders to legally seek employment in the US, the letter said.
This rule presented an important step towards reconsidering gender disparities in our immigration system, as around 95 per cent of H4 visa holders who have secured work authorisations are women.
In December 2017, USCIS approved 1,26,853 applications for employment authorisation for H-4 visa holders. A 2018 report by Congressional Research Service (CRS) mentions that 93% of applications were approved for H-4 employment authorisation and were issued to individuals born in India, and 5% were issued to individuals born in China.
