Spouses of Guest Workers Now Eligible for Work Permits Under Obama Actions

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | May 26, 2015 | Caroline May

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Department of Homeland Security is now accepting employment authorization applications for certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders.

In February, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez announced that, come May, the Obama administration would be extending employment authorization eligibility to a category of immigrant previously ineligible to work in the U.S. — dependent spouses of H-1B immigrants.

DHS began accepting applications under the new H-4 employment rule — which was part of the executive actions on immigration President Obama put in motion on November 20 — Tuesday.

When the Obama administration announced the expansion in February, it anticipated that the number of individuals eligible to apply for work permits under the rule could be 179,600 in the first year and 55,000 for each subsequent year.

Last month, a group of former Southern California Edison employees — displaced by H-1B visa holders — sued the administration over the new H-4 rule, arguing that it negatively impacts their job prospects.....

[SkyDancer]

Destroying America one illegal at a time.

[pfflier]

Hurry!! Get ‘em embedded before the supreme court says you can’t.

[ClayinVA]

Guess how many Indian arranged marriages just got approved because the wife can work in the US now. Major increase in family salary for them and even more IT jobs gone down the drain stateside.

[VTenigma]

OK, everybody in the pool!

[the_daug]

Canada does that too.

[the_daug]

Guest workers are not illegal.

[impimp]

H1b is not perfect but it is not a problem. The problem is illegals.

[Organic Panic]

Viva senor Obama.

[sten]

didn’t see that coming.

oh wait... i’m a FReeper. we ALL knew this was coming.

[PghBaldy]

The problem is immigration, period. They are replacing America with a cross section of the Third World.

[SkyDancer]

They take jobs from Americans. They come in on an I9 program. I’ve processed over a hundred a month just at my facility alone. They mostly come from Pakistan and India.

[exit82]

Stevie Wonder could have seen this one coming.

[Gator113]

We are being replaced.

[patro]

Even Ray Charles saw it coming.

[Reno89519]

The result is more displaced workers and more anchor babies. Time to end these programs UNLESS an employer can prove there is no American or legal resident available or trainable for the job. All H1B and their partners should be sent home. This would be a boon for American workers.

[khelus]

The problem is immigration, period. They are replacing America with a cross section of the Third World.

Absolutely !!!

Anywhere else and this would be decried as cultural genocide.

Once upon a time people came here to partake of the benefits of traditional American culture.

Now they come here to replace traditional American culture and partake of the generous bennies. They may be technically ineligible for the bennies but eligibility is done on the honor system.

[ConservingFreedom]

H-1B ping. Let me know if you're not on the list and want to be added (or are and want to be removed).

[ConservingFreedom]

They take jobs from Americans.

So that corporations with no loyalty to America can fatten their bottom lines.