Key Points
Big technology companies won a major court victory in Washington, where a judge dismissed a suit challenging the rights of highly skilled H-1B visa holders spouses to work in the US..
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday issued a decision upholding the Obama-era rule under which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued H-4 visas to the spouses of hundreds of thousands of H-1B workers in the US, 70% of whom hold science and engineering jobs in the tech sector...
Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. were among the companies who urged the judge to let the rule stand...
The ability of H-1B holders spouses to also get jobs in the US has been a major attraction for highly skilled foreign workers, the tech companies have argued...
We now have complete chaos as the federal courts have seized control over the immigration system from Congress and handed that authority over to DHS, the lawyer, John Miano, said.. Tech companies were among a group, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that filed a brief in the case arguing that eliminating H-4 visas would not only siphon off U.S. gross domestic product, but gift that productivity and the innovation that comes with it to other nations...
