Senior Trump administration officials said the suspended work visas included H-1B, H-4 for some H-1B spouses, H-2B for low skill workers, some categories of J visas for cultural and education workers and L-1 for intra-company transfers. Also read: Google CEO Sundar Pichai disappointed by Trump’s move to suspend foreign work visas“This is a Hindu Ban much like the Muslim Ban,” said one of them on condition of anonymity. Some conservatives have long viewed the work visa programmes, specially H-1B, as a threat for Americans, and Trump is tapping into it with these suspensions. Activists campaigning for a better deal for India H-1B visa holders in line for green card say an estimated two million Indians will be impacted by the suspensions, including H-1B visa holders, those waiting for their green cards and those on L-1. Most egregiously for the critics of this practice, Americans workers were forced to train the foreign workers who replaced them.

Source: Hindustan Times June 22, 2020 20:30 UTC