The H1B visa, most sought-after among Bangladeshi professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. "Today I am signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple rule, higher American," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House before signing the order against hiring H1B visa holders for federal contracts. "As we speak, we're finalising the H-1B regulation so that no American workers be replaced ever again. H-1B should be used for top highly paid talent to create American jobs, not as inexpensive labour programmes and destroy American job," Trump said. As a result, the Department of Labour will also finalise guidlines to prevent H1B employers from moving H1B workers to other employers' job sites to displace Americans workers.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 05, 2020 08:26 UTC