Highly skilled immigrants soon joint work in us

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Martha Mendoza and Amy Taxin

If man Neha Mahajan got a job transfer to New Delhi in New Jersey, I was excited to come. But the excitement faded as a television journalist clear that there was no way I get a job in US banned due to the immigration rules to their work.

More than six years, he was very frustrated.

That changed Tuesday when the Obama administration announced a review of the visa regime, the spouses of certain skilled immigrants apply in the United States this year to work.

"This rule is a great relief to come to me," he said in a conference call organized by Mahajan immigration reform activists. "Finally I can, I even dream of."

Leon Rodriguez, director of Citizenship and Immigration, to encourage the change more experts come to the US H-1B visas and green cards to be here to ask. He said the attraction of these workers - to stimulate the US economy - and their spouses.

"They are, in many cases, in their own right of highly skilled workers," Rodriguez told reporters, adding that many families have had financial problems if the spouse could not work, and return in some cases home.

Employers can bring in foreign workers with H-1B visas for evidence that it obtained Every year, no qualified candidate in the US, approximately 85,000 are issued mainly in the high-tech enterprises.

So far, their spouse another H-4 visa that is not made eligible for a Social Security number issued. Just not legal to make money.

"This is a very welcome change that will do nothing but good for all", Austin, Texas, immigration attorney Daniel Kowalski said. "H-4 spouses have the right to put their skills to productive use, and the pressure on families already burdened by an outsider talented spouse. There is no disadvantage."

Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Not too. In a press release said that spouses of foreign workers have jobs Americans.

"The government says this is the reduction of" personal "restrictions on guest workers. What limitations American workers and their families, and their spouses and children?" Sessions said.

The Obama administration has announced to make the change in May plans. The government estimates that up to 179,000 spouse a work permit in the first year could be considered and a further 55,000 in the following year. The application will be accepted May 26

The announcement comes as the Obama administration struggles with the Republicans in wide immigration action plans that could allow 4 million immigrants in the country in search of work permits and protection from deportation illegally from.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the measures and the Obama administration appealed.