 Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk can do press bell button for notifications. News for H1B visa holders and aspirants. Not a good news. US President Trump has issued a proclamation to temporarily suspend H1B visas and other work visas till the end of the year. He has initiated the process of reform of the H1B visa system. The reform is in the direction of merit-based immigration. President Trump has directed reform of the immigration system to prioritize the highest skilled workers and protect American jobs which he has been propagating about for long. The H1B visa in the United States as many of you would know is provided under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Section 101A15H of the act allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. A specialty occupation requires the application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or equivalent of work experience. The duration of stay is three years which is extendable to six years after which the visa holder may need to reapply. Under the newly contemplated reforms the H1B program will prioritize those workers who are offered the highest wage ensuring that the highest skilled applicants are admitted into the country. There is a move to close loop holes that have allowed in the past employers in the US to replace American workers with low cost foreign labor. These reforms are intended to help and protect the wages of American workers and to ensure that foreign labor entering the United States is highly skilled and does not undercut the United States labor market. This will drive both the wage level and the skill level of the H1B applicants up. It will eliminate the competition with Americans. Law as many of you would know limits the number of H1B visas to 85,000 every year whereas last year 225,000 applications were received for those visas in the United States. These visas were being distributed through random lottery system. However now the United States is to get rid of that lottery system and replace it with ranking the salaries so the top 85,000 salary offers among the 225,000 or so applicants will get visas. This will drive both the wage level and the skill level of the H1B applicants up as I mentioned earlier and obviously eliminate the competition with the Americans. This is what the Americans want so laws for many, many Indians especially in the IT sector. Thank you.