Visas for spouses of tech workers

Tech giants are fighting to save a crucial visa for the spouses of skilled workers, said Joel Rosenblatt and Olivia Carville in Bloomberg .com. “Under the Obama-era ‘H-4 Rule,’ the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2015 issued visas to 90,000 spouses of highly skilled workers who live in the U.S. on H-1B visas,” about three-quarters of whom work in the tech sector. The Trump administration froze both H-1B and H-4 visas. Now the Trump ban has expired, but an advocacy group called Save Jobs USA is suing over the visas, arguing the H-4 program is illegal. “Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and more than 20 other organizations” have urged a court to reject the claims.