Canada approved Mr. Parashar and his family for permanent residency through Express Entry, an immigration program for skilled workers. “They kept saying that H-1Bs take away jobs from Americans,” Mr. Parashar told DealBook. The visas “should never, ever be used to replace American workers,” President Donald J. Trump said in 2017 when he signed a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, which increased scrutiny of H-1B visa applications. But does making it harder to obtain an H-1B visa result in more American jobs? Interviews with immigration lawyers and H-1B visa applicants suggest that when the Trump administration introduced additional scrutiny of H-1B applications, companies often shifted workers or hired elsewhere instead of filling the roles with American workers.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2021 12:00 UTC