Seattle – Seattle (AP) is that it seems the first serious problem for the new Candy for $ 100,000, required for the H-1B visa Applications, the coalition of medical workers, religious groups, professors of universities and others, filed a federal lawsuit on Friday to stop the plan, saying that he “abandoned employers, workers and federal institutions in chaos.”
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on September 19, demanding a new fee, saying that the H-1B visa program “was deliberately operated for replacement, and not to supplement American workers with a lower, lower labor level.” The changes should have entered into force in 36 hours, which led to a panic for employers who instructed their employees to immediately return to the United States.
A lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Francisco said that the H-1B program is a critical way to hire medical workers and teachers. The lawsuit states that this stimulates innovation and economic growth in the United States and allows employers to fill out jobs in specialized fields.
“Without relief, the hospital will lose their medical personnel, the churches will lose pastors, classrooms will lose teachers, and industries throughout the country are at risk of losing key innovators,” the Fund Fund and Center for Justice Action Fund said. “The court asks the court immediately Block the order and restore predictability for employers and employees. ”
They called the new fee “the last anti -immigration capture of Trump.”
Messages aimed at commenting the US Ministry of Internal Security and Customs and Border Protection, which are called the accused together with Trump and the State Department, were not immediately returned.
Congress was created by the H-1B visa program to attract highly qualified workers to fill out jobs that technological companies find it difficult to fill out. According to the claim, about a third of the employees of the H-1B Medom, teachers, doctors, scientists, priests and pastors.
Critics say that the program is a pipeline for foreign workers who are often ready to work for only $ 60,000 a year, which is significantly lower than salaries of $ 100,000, usually paid by American technological workers.
Historically, the H-1B visas were distributed to the lottery. This year, Amazon in Seattle, of course, became the best recipient of H-1B visas with more than 10,000 awards followed by Tata Consultance, Microsoft, Apple and Google. Geographically, in California the largest number of H-1B workers.
A fee of $ 100,000 will impede the best and most striking minds from providing vital research in the United States, said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University professors.
Mike Miller, the director of the region of 6 united automobile, aerospace and agricultural workers of America, said that Trump's plan “distributes the priorities of wealth and connections over scientific grip and zeal”.
Sky Permiman, the president and chief executive director of the striker of democracy, claims that the “exorbitant fee” invites corruption and is illegal. Congress created a program, and Trump cannot rewrite it overnight or levy new taxes by order, groups said.
