As anticipated, the Trump Administration has taken several new steps to curb alleged abuse of the popular H-1B nonimmigrant visa program, the most significant actions so far in the Administration’s ongoing effort to restrict the use of H-1B visas.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR), entitled “Strengthening the H-1B Non-immigrant Visa Classification Program,” essentially designed to reduce the number of H-1B visas used by U.S. employers. In an accompanying action, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued an Interim Final Rule that significantly increases the prevailing wage rates applicable to H-1B beneficiaries.
The DHS rule is scheduled to go into effect on December 7, 2020. The DOL rule went into effect on its date of publication, October 8, 2020.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.