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Effect Of Layoff In IT Industry On Real Estate

Effect Of Layoff On the Real Estate Sector

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, developers of real estate have resorted to layoffs and wage cutbacks, since sales are expected to remain down in the next months, as per industry analysts.

Since the last three to four years, the real estate industry has faced headwinds as a result of demonetisation, RERA, and GST implementation, as well as delays in clearances. The Covid-19 situation has damaged market sentiment and sales even more.

The real estate business employs 6-7 million people, including 300,000 white-collar workers, according to industry estimates.

According to MyHiringClub.com and Sarkari-Naukri.info, the coronavirus outbreak is projected to lay off roughly 200,000 real estate personnel (including white-collar workers). They said that about 60,000 jobs had been lost thus far.

"The industry is having a significant influence on their sales, which will immediately impact company profitability." There is now a significant possibility of default in the outstanding payment.

Because many developers are already suffering a liquidity problem, they are focused on cost containment, making layoffs, closing offices, and attempting to consolidate their work and people." This scenario is projected to last till the end of the fiscal year," said the CEO and MD of consultancy firm PropConsilium Infratech. PTI quoted Rajesh Kumar as saying.

Factors such as the global economic slowdown, the obstacles beset upon the European Union as a result of Brexit, and the US change in policy on the issuance of the 'H1B' visa were some of the approaches remains that had previously been voiced, standing in the way of Indian 'IT' industry growth. 

Furthermore, industrial trends toward the use of automation, robotics, and machine intelligence to cut costs are significant causes of workforce reduction. At various levels, one-third of people in the 'IT' business are losing their employment. Given the resulting market unhappiness, numerous reputable IT firms have acknowledged that they have trained staff who have been laid off on advanced technology with increased responsibilities. 

In contrast, IT industry experts are worried about the challenges that a majority of present employees experience as a result of the usage of new technologies since they have been discovered to be unfit for advanced training. Employees in the 'IT' industry are also voicing concern about increased layoffs in such scenarios.

The Indian IT sector has mostly established itself in a cluster of cities such as Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Noida, Pune, and Navi Mumbai. The exponential rise of these IT businesses has had a synergistic influence on the real estate market in the surrounding locations. This increase in demand has boosted the building industry.

As a result, the rise in layoffs in the IT business is expected to cause a decline in the industry of real estate and a challenge to the building sector in these prominent cities known as IT centres.

However, the Centre has considered the potential risks that may occur as a result of the layoffs. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's Minister of Information and Telecommunications, will meet with CEOs of important IT firms in the first week of June. 

Currently, 16 thousand 'IT' and 'BPO' firms employ 40 lakh people in the country. Employees in these organisations are typically between the ages of 30 and 40, with an annual salary ranging from 20 to 60 lakh rupees.

Because of rising employee earnings in the IT business, younger workers are saving for home purchases. These employees have little difficulty purchasing real estate because of their regular high wages. This is extremely beneficial to the building industry. 

Nevertheless, if the IT industry is laid off, these individuals will most likely keep such ideas away. As a consequence, it would have opposite effects on the business of the real estate.

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Trump defends suspending Green Card applications till Dec 31 Image Source : AP Trump defends suspending Green Card applications till Dec 31 US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to suspend issuing of green cards till the end of the year, saying it was needed to give jobs to Americans.

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Trump defends suspending Green Card applications till Dec 31 Image Source : AP Trump defends suspending Green Card applications till Dec 31 US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to suspend issuing of green cards till the end of the year, saying it was needed to give jobs to Americans.

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Over 200,000 H-1B VISA Workers Could Lose Their Right To Be...

Over 200,000 H-1B VISA Workers Could Lose Their Right To Be…

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H-1B recipients can only remain in the country legally for 60 days without being paid (File)

Manasi Vasavada has less than three weeks left before she loses her legal right to be in the country. The dental practice in Passaic County, New Jersey, where Vasavada, 31, has worked for almost two years closed its doors in mid-March due to Covid-19. She has been on an unpaid leave of absence…

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On June 22, 2020 President Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending the issuance of employment-based visas, including H-1B for highly-skilled workers through the end of the year. 

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Response To Emergent Immigration Issue Regarding Heavy USCIS Delay In Covid-19 Pandemics

By Yutai Qiao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Class of 2020

August 16, 2020

Since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemics, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) faces an unprecedented conundrum regarding a substantial increase in filed cases and severe shortage in its working budget.1 Due to the slowed process of immigration and naturalization service during the pandemic, the fund received by USCIS has been dramatically decreased. Such a decrease is forcing USCIS to reduce or furlough its employees.2 Meanwhile, because of the extremely limited international traveling situation, an increase in the amount of filed cases to the USCIS, combined with the lack of workforces, causes a disastrous delay in processing cases. This article will discuss and address some means to expedite the precession of their cases for those who have urgent needs concerning their immigration and visa issues.

Firstly, it is most direct and easy to use the regular expedite methods provided by USCIS. USCIS offers to expedite over general cases and premium processing over H1B visas. According to Chapter 5, Volume 1 of Policy Manual of USCIS, “Benefit requestors may request USCIS to expedite the adjudication of their applications or petitions.” In order to receive expedited processing, the requestors ought to prove their situation falls into the following categories with evidence: severe financial loss, humanitarian need, governmental interest, or USCIS error. The expedite requests are separated requests from original benefit requests and may receive different results. The requestors will receive responses from USCIS regarding their expedite request in several days.4The other way to expedite a benefit request is the premium processing which works exclusively with the expedite request. For those who apply for non-immigrant workers using Form I-129 and I-140, they are offered another option for paying a higher amount of fee to have their case expedited. The fee is 1,440 dollars while USCIS guarantees the processing of premium cases taking up to 15 calendar days or return of the fee. 5

However, due to the recent situation, the expedition offered by USCIS is not as reliable as it during a regular period: as USCIS is now experiencing unexpectedly high volume, it is difficult to receive approval on the expedite request. In case of failure with the options expedite offered by the USCIS, federal congressmen or women and senators may be another excellent source for help regarding immigration or visa issues. For congressmen or women, one can easily locate the representative in their congressional district: they often hold office in each county or major city of their congressional district.6 Thus, in-person visits or communications via telephone are generally accessible for those who have the emergent need for help in immigration or visa issues. Federal senators, on the other hand, may not be in the same amount as congressmen or women, while they usually hold office in only major cities or capital of each state. Retrieving their contact information or submitting online requests thus is a more reasonable approach. Their websites are more developed that offer detailed guidelines for requests regarding every aspects.

Though Covid-19 poses an unexpected and unprecedented adverse situation on those who are seeking career or academic pursuits in the United States, efforts are still feasible for people to achieve their American dream. Thorough collections of information or researches can still yield considerable benefit to those who conduct them.

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1. Christal Hayes, “US immigration services set to furlough two-thirds of its workers after coronavirus stimulus talks fail,” USA TODAY, USA TODAY, updated Aug 12 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/11/covid-19-stimulus-deal-us-immigration-services-plans-furloughs/3344178001/

2. Nicole Nerea, “A US immigration agency could run out of money by the end of summer without a $1.2 billion bailout”, Vox, updated May 16 2020, https://www.vox.com/2020/5/16/21260966/uscis-bailout-coronavirus-immigration-agency

3. Breisblatt, Joshua, and Joshua Breisblatt. 2020. "USCIS Is Slowly Being Morphed Into An Immigration Enforcement Agency". Immigration Impact. https://immigrationimpact.com/2018/07/09/uscis-guidance-immigration-benefit/#.XzdvxEBFzic.

4. “Requests to Expedite Applications or Petitions”, Policy Manual, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, retrieved Aug 14 2020, https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-1-part-a-chapter-5

5. “How Do I Request Premium Processing?” Forms, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, retrieved Aug 14 2020, https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms/how-do-i-request-premium-processing

6. Directory of Representatives, United States House of Representatives, retrieved Aug 14 2020, https://www.house.gov/representatives

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Ivanka Trump Launching American Workforce Development Ad Campaign

White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump will launch a new ad campaign on Tuesday promoting the value of job training outside of the four-year university college system.

“There has never been a more critical time for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple pathways to career success and gain the vocational training and skills they need to fill jobs in a changing economy,” Ivanka Trump told reporters in a statement.

“While we celebrate and encourage American innovation, we recognize the responsibility of both the public and private sectors to invest in American workers and ensure that they are reconnected with good jobs and prepared for the future.”

Ivanka Trump will join IBM Executive Chairman Ginni Rometty and Apple CEO Tim Cook for a virtual roundtable on Tuesday to launch the “Find Something New” ad campaign together with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board and the Ad Council.

Cook said it was vital to develop new skills in the American workforce.

“To invest in our future, we have to invest in people, in education, and the many paths to a well-paying job or starting a new business,” he wrote in a statement. “This initiative is about empowering people across the nation to discover a more hopeful future for themselves and their families.”

The website and campaign argue the need for workers to “pivot and retrain” their skills to connect to more modern jobs that pay a decent wage.

The promoted jobs include aerospace engineering and operations technician, broadcast and sound engineering technician, web developer, computer support specialist, and other trades like an electrician or a line installer and repairer. Other jobs promoted in the medical field include a registered nurse, a radiologic/MRI technician, and a contact tracer for diseases like coronavirus.

The funding for the ad campaign comes from corporations including Apple, AT&T Inc., CISCO Systems, Inc. Duke Energy Corporation, General Motors Company, The Home Depot, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Lockheed Martin, VISA, and Walmart. “The White House is proud to support the Ad Council through this campaign and will continue to champion all avenues that support American workers and families,” Ivanka Trump wrote.

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Jules • 6 hours ago

How about some of these corporations developing job training programs that targets our poor and minority groups here in the USA? Do for our country what the iPhone did for China? This would be a great conscious capitalism initiative given the current focus on BLM.

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barbara Jules • 6 hours ago

Good point. Need more vocational and technical training at the high school level. Not kids want to go to college. There are so many fields that could be trained in and then maybe continue that at a community college level or just do training programs/internships at certain manufacturing co. etc

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opto barbara • 3 hours ago

When I was working I sat on advisory panels to HS and a vocational college. As a leader of a bleeding technology engineering group there were some terrific family supporting income opportunities as support staff. I hosted both groups in our studios and made sure they were aware of how the software and supporting software they were already using could be married together to produce intelligent mapping, via links to data warehouses in a very simple way. They had no desire to focus on LONG term student success. It was business as usual with NO RESPONSIBILITY on their part. I might as well have been beating my head against a brick wall.

—— As long as we REFUSE to hold institutions accountable for student success evidenced by job placements we’ll ALWAYS be disappointed AND our society will be full of people wandering around aimlessly because they don’t merit good incomes.

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opto Jules • 3 hours ago

If we dry up the pool of foreign and illegal labor Americans will GLADLY train and work doing jobs that are PROPERLY remunerated.

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gslim Jules • 2 hours ago

I would be happy if they simply invested in their existing employees for continuing education and training. Instead, they simply replace with H1B.

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opto • 4 hours ago

The biggest problem with vocational technology, internships, and apprenticeships are the company leaders who don’t believe that ANYONE who doesn’t possess a 4-year degree is more than a fool with a wrench. They devalue those who are high level contributors because they lack 4-year credentials which is discrimination of the worst kind. Our country’s management structure ever since the mid 60’s has been this way and it only got worse as outsourcing to foreign countries and technology transfer via the internet became a reality. —— Restrict any foreign hires, foreign students, AND employ only Americans until we LITERALLY don’t have enough bodies to do what OUR stateside factories and businesses need,

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New US visa rule leaves Indian, Chinese students in panic | USA News

New York, United States – The Trump administration’s abrupt changes to foreign student visa rules have upended the plans of more than a million international students currently enrolled in institutions across the United States, with many fearing for their future.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday announced that it would strip the visa of foreign students whose entire courses have moved online due to the coronavirus pandemic, with critics calling the move “xenophobic” and part of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy.

The directive by ICE’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program is likely to hit hundreds of thousands of students, particularly from Asian countries, hard, as they will have to leave the US or face deportation.

Many of them might face the prospect of distance learning from the other side of the world, where time zones, unreliable internet connections, and internet bans would make completing their degree programmes difficult – if not impossible.

According to research conducted by ICE, nearly 80 percent of all international students in the US are from Asia, with China and India accounting for nearly half of them.

This order is basically pushing students to choose between disease and deportation.

Ifat Gazia, a PhD student from Indian-administered Kashmir

Students currently enrolled in programmes taught entirely online must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status.

Columbia University has announced that classes will begin on September 8, with a three-term schedule and hybrid teaching  [Heena Kausar/Al Jazeera]

Universities in the US were forced to shift classes online in mid-March in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. The country is the hardest hit by the pandemic with more than three million confirmed cases and 135,000 deaths.

‘Xenophobic’ and ‘anti-immigration’

Ifat Gazia, a PhD student from Indian-administered Kashmir, said: “If ICE sends me and other Kashmiri students back, we would be left with no remote learning option. I will have to take a leave from my university and sit back home until this order is revoked.”

India imposed one of the longest internet blockades in Kashmir in August last year when the disputed Muslim-majority regionwas stripped of its special status. The internet blockade was lifted in January this year, but mobile internet, which many people there rely on, has been limited to 2G speeds.

If I go back and lose my F-1 [student] visa then I will have to restart my career in India with a huge debt.

A student from India, who wished to remain anonymous

Calling the ICE order “xenophobic” and “anti-immigration”, Gazia said the order will have a detrimental effect on international students in the US. “This order is basically pushing students to choose between disease and deportation,” Gazia, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said.

According to research conducted by ICE, nearly 80 percent of all international students in the US are from Asia, with China and India accounting for nearly half of them [File: Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

A Chinese student currently studying at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said attending online classes will be difficult if he goes back to his home country. Many websites, including Google and Facebook, that US universities use to communicate with students, are blocked in China.

To get around the issue, he will have to use a virtual private network (VPN) to access search engines such as Google and other websites. “Using a VPN slows the internet speed, and sometimes the connection breaks down,” he told Al Jazeera wishing not to be named.

The ICE order has also taken away the flexibility that international students had while navigating academic life amid the pandemic. Veeraj Jindal, a student at Dartmouth College, said, he may have to drop this semester.

Veeraj Jindal, a student at Dartmouth College, said he may have to drop this semester [Photo courtesy Veeraj Jindal]

“There is so much uncertainty about what to do. Unless commercial flights start from India to US, I may not be able to go back to join college on time,” the 19-year-old said.

Jindal said the policy is forcing him to choose between facing a health risk and losing his visa. “Forcing students to go back on campus will create health implications,” Jindal said over the phone from India’s capital, New Delhi.

Another Indian student pursuing a law degree at a university in New York, who also did not wish to be named, said the order has upended his career plans, and could leave him with unpaid debts of more than $150,000.

He fears he will have to let go of a job offer that he has received. “If I go back and lose my F-1 [student] visa then I will have to restart my career in India with a huge debt,” he added.

Universities react

Two top American universities – Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in court, seeking to revoke the order by the Trump administration.

“We will pursue this case vigorously so that our international students – and international students at institutions across the country – can continue their studies without the threat of deportation,” Harvard’s president Lawrence S Bacow said in a statement.

This is to strong-arm universities and colleges to buy into that narrative which the Trump administration is trying to sell that everything is fine.

Sharvari (Shev) Dalal-Dheini, director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association

“We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal,” he added.

Some universities, including, Princeton University, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Cornell University have announced their support for the lawsuit by Harvard and MIT.

Brown University, where international students account for about 18 percent of the total student population, issued a statement on Wednesday describing the new immigration order as “nothing short of cruel” and “a direct threat to public health”.

International students contributed $45bn to the US economy during 2018, the Institute of International Education report said, citing the US Department of Commerce, according to a report by Reuters news agency.

Harvard on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in court, seeking to revoke the order by the Trump administration [Gunther/EPA]

NAFSA, a global education advocacy group, said the foreign students supported nearly 460,000 jobs in the US in the 2018-19 academic year.

Harvard plans to conduct all course instructions for the 2020-21 academic year online, but many other universities are planning to adopt a hybrid model, which will include online classes and some in-person instruction, in the wake of the visa changes.

During the 2019 fall semester, UC Berkeley admitted 6,833 international students, including 2,763 from China, and 709 from India. Berkeley will be implementing a hybrid model for the fall 2020 semester.

Ivor Emmanuel, director, Berkeley International Office, said campus leadership examining their course instruction plans for the fall 2020 semester “with an eye towards making sure that a sufficient level of in-person classes are made available for students”.

Columbia University, situated in the leafy Upper West Side district of Manhattan, New York, has announced that classes will begin on September 8, with a three-term schedule and hybrid teaching.

Columbia University’s president Lee C Bollinger said in a statement, “We must endeavor to configure hybrid classes providing in-person and remote learning options that alleviate the negative effect of these new regulations on Columbia students.”

The US government defends the order

The US government on Wednesday defended the new ICE orders. “You don’t get a visa for taking online classes from, let’s say, the University of Phoenix, so why would you if you were just taking online classes generally?” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said during a press briefing.

But critics and leaders from the opposition Democratic Party have slammed Trump for the student visa directive.

We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal.”

Lawrence S Bacow, Harvard president

“The cruelty of this White House knows no bounds. Foreign students are being threatened with a choice: risk your life going to class in-person or get deported,” said Senator Bernie Sanders. “We must stand up to Trump’s bigotry. We must keep all our students safe.”

Meanwhile, New Delhi has expressed its concerns to Washington about the change in students visa that could affect a large number of Indian students.

“We have urged the US side that we need to keep in mind the role that educational exchanges and people to people relations have played in the development of our relations,” Anurag Srivastava, spokesman at India’s foreign ministry told a news conference.

The curb on students’ visa is being seen by some experts as an effort by the Trump administration to pressure US educational institutions to open their gates as opposed to the cautious approach to their resuming classes.

Sharvari (Shev) Dalal-Dheini, director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), said the order helps advance the story that Trump administration wants to feed that everything is back to normal and everything should be open.

“This is to strong-arm universities and colleges to buy into that narrative which the Trump administration is trying to sell that everything is fine.”

The ICE order on international students comes two weeks after the US government temporarily suspended work visas, including H1B, for foreign workers, as the US unemployment level hit record levels due to COVID-19. That order affected more than 400,000 H1B visa applications.

Greg Siskind, an immigration lawyer based in Memphis, said it was not a coincidence that the ICE order comes a few months before the 2020 US presidential elections. “The president believes that these things will help him which is why these things happen,” he said. “I think COVID-19 is just an excuse to do things that they wanted to do all along.”

Jenny J Lee, a professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, said the ICE order is consistent with anti-immigration policies that have been rolled out by the Trump administration.

“But the difference is that these are students who are already legally here on visas provided by the US government,” said Jenny.

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Trump blocks H1B visa; businesses say decision will hurt US recovery

International News US President Donald Trump suspended the entry into the United States of certain foreign workers on Monday, a move the White House said would help the coronavirus-battered economy, but which business groups strongly oppose.

Trump issued a presidential proclamation that temporarily blocks foreign workers entering on H-1B visas, which are for skilled employees, and L visas, for managers and specialized workers being transferred within a company.

ALSO READ: Things to know: Trump suspends H1B, other visas till 2020-end. What it means

Trump also blocked those entering on H-2B seasonal worker visas, which are used by landscapers and other industries. The visa suspension, which runs to the end of the year, will open up 525,000 jobs for U.S. workers.

A senior administration official said on a call with reporters. The official, who did not explain how the administration arrived at that figure, said the move was geared at "getting Americans back to work as quickly as possible...Read more.

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#PresidentTrump on Monday is expected to sign an #executiveorder that significantly expands current #immigration #restrictions to include a number of #guestworker programs including the #H1B #visa -- an order the administration says will put #Americans first for #jobs as the #economy emerges from #coronavirus #lockdowns. #Trump previously signed an order in April that restricted some #greencards, but held off from restricting guest worker programs. While other #travel restrictions at the time were meant to curb coronavirus risk, the stated purpose of the immigration order was to help Americans in the job market after the #pandemic put millions out of work. Go to the link in our bio for more on this story. Follow us for #WorldNews & more @world_news_app Stay informed with all the latest news, updates & more of the United States of America. Get our USA-specific mobile news app from: tiny.cc/usnews Get our World News Pro App (AD-FREE) for all the latest news & more from all around the world at: bit.ly/WNProFB Get our free World News App for all the latest news & more from all around the world at: bit.ly/WorldNewsFB or link in bio Reposted from @foxnews #DonaldTrump #DonaldJTrump #Trumpadministration #travelban #h1bvisa #workvisa #india #itindustry #americafirst #visaban #WorldNewsApp (at United States of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBxLSYkBMQ0/?igshid=al7efale70ho

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Trump considering suspending H1B, other visas: Report Image Source : FILW Trump considering suspending H1B, other visas: Report US President Donald Trump is considering suspending a number of employment visas including the H-1B, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, in view of the massive unemployment in America due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a media report.

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Trump considering suspending H1B, other visas: Report Image Source : FILW Trump considering suspending H1B, other visas: Report US President Donald Trump is considering suspending a number of employment visas including the H-1B, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, in view of the massive unemployment in America due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a media report.

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President Trump reportedly will sign executive order temporarily suspending work visas for H-1B holders

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order temporarily halting work visas like the H-1B visa program for highly skilled workers, cutting off a critical source of foreign labor for tech companies already complaining about tech talent shortages, according to reports in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Visa-holders already in the US and those applicants who have received a visa already are exempt from the ban. But the restrictions are intended to last until the end of the year, which would disrupt the government’s typical process of awarding new visas at the beginning of the national fiscal calendar in October.

Officials from the Trump Administration told the Journal that the move is intended to protect American jobs, but executives in the technology industry have long warned that visa restrictions would hurt the nation’s ability to compete in industries that have both strategic and financial significance as engines of economic growth.

Tech officials have even cited immigration curbs as a factor that would force companies to relocate more of their operations overseas in an effort to hire and retain top technology talent.

According to the news reports, officials expect these new restrictions to last until the end of the year, and expand the immigration bans that the President put in place in April that blocked family members of U.S. citizens from immigrating and slashed the number of visas available to high-skilled  workers looking to immigrate to the US.

Estimates provided to the Wall Street Journal indicate that roughly 525,000 people will be unable to enter the country as a result of the expanded travel restrictions including 170,000 green-card holders barred from entering the US since April. The Trump administration official quoted by the Journal called the initiative an “America-first recovery” that would potentially open up 500,000 jobs for out-of-work Americans.

Technology executives are already voicing their displeasure with the reported ban. “Banning all H1B [sic] visas means CEOs like me have to open offices and hire more people in countries like Canada that allow immigration. This visa ban is morally wrong and economically stupid,” wrote Anshu Sharma, the chief executive officer of the technology startup Skyflow.

Banning all H1B visas means CEOs like me have to open offices and hire more people in countries like Canada that allow immigration.

This visa ban is morally wrong, and economically stupid. What happened to being “for legal immigration”? https://t.co/R9O9Q1Ts0j

— H1B immigrant Anshu Sharma

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Investors are also up-in-arms about the decision’s impact on America’s ability to compete.

“Whether his administration realizes it or not, they creating a significant handicap for US innovation. Our most innovative and impactful portfolio companies and many of their employees started as H-1b holders,” wrote Stonly Baptiste, the co-founder of technology investment fund, Urban.us. “We literally couldn’t have built our portfolio in an environment without H-1B. And we’re not even an immigrant focused fund.”

Also on the chopping block are H-2B visas, which are used to let short-term seasonal workers in landscaping and non-farm jobs into the country, J-1 jobs for short-term workers like camp counselors and au pairs and L-1 visas for corporate company transfers, the Journal reported.

Healthcare workers, coronavirus researchers, food supply workers in food packaging are all exempt from the visa suspensions.

Technology executives aren’t the only ones coming out against the tighter immigration rules. A group of nine Republican senators including South Carolina’s powerful senior senator, Lindsey Graham, and Texas Senator John Cornyn, issued a joint letter on May 27, which pleaded with the President to reconsider the rumored immigration restrictions.

“Guest workers are needed to boost American business, not take American jobs,” they wrote.

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President Trump is expected to sign an order as soon as Saturday to suspend H-1B, L-1 and other temporary work visas through the end of the year, according to the multiple sources familiar with the plan. The new order — which is expected to come with broad exceptions — comes as the administration continues to wrestle with high unemployment among American workers because of the coronavirus pandemic as well as kick-start the economic recovery. #ArvandLaw is a full service immigration law firm located in the financial district of Manhattan and just minutes from the Immigration Courts at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. Call us today for an evaluation of your immigration matter 212-323-7435 or 646-660-2658. #WeAreArvandLaw 🤘 #Immigration #Immigrantstrong 💪 #NoFear #NoBanNoWall #NoHate #USCIS #DHS #H1B https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year The order would target H-1B visas, which are designed for certain skilled workers such as those employed in the tech industry, as well as L-1 visas, which are meant for executives who work for large corporations. (at Law Office of M. Ray Arvand, PC • An Immigration & Personal Injury Law Firm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqsTiHpQGc/?igshid=149diyodtof1

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USCIS Resuming Premium Processing In Phases Beginning June 1

On May 29, 2020, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will resume premium processing for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, and Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers, in phases over the next month [PDF version]. Premium processing had been suspended since March 20, 2020, due to the effects of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation.

Effective June 1, 2020, the USCIS will accept Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for all eligible Form I-140 petitions.

Effective June 8, 2020, the USCIS will resume premium processing for all non-H1B eligible Form I-129 petitions that are pending adjudication as of June 8. Regarding H1B petitions, the USCIS will accept premium processing requests for those that were filed before June 8, that are pending adjudication, and are cap-exempt.

Effective June 15, 2020, the USCIS will resume premium processing for H1B petitions requesting premium processing by filing the Form I-907 concurrently with the Form I-129, provided that the petition is cap-exempt. This means that petitions filed by cap-exempt employers, on behalf of beneficiaries working at qualifying cap-exempt institutions, or on behalf of beneficiaries who received Conrad or Interested Government Agency waivers will be eligible for premium processing.

Effective June 22, 2020, the USCIS will resume premium processing for all eligible Form I-129 petitions not specified above. This includes all cap-subject H1B petitions and all other eligible petitions requesting premium processing concurrently with the filing of the petition.

We will update the site with more information if the USCIS modifies its plan to resume premium processing. We discuss premium processing for Form I-129 [see article] and for Form I-140 petitions [see article] in separate articles on site.

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