Trump extends and expands visa restrictions to end of year
Tech industry body says the move is ‘extremely disappointing’
23 June 2020 - 00:27
Washington — President Donald Trump signed an order Monday temporarily halting access to several employment-based visas, affecting hundreds of thousands of people seeking to work in the US.
The order freezes new H1-B and H-4 visas, used by technology workers and their families, L visas for intracompany transfers, and most J visas for work- and study-abroad programmes, including au pairs, through to the end of the year...
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