{"id":2681,"date":"2019-09-13T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:01:01","slug":"work-rescission-proposal-federal-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/work-rescission-proposal-federal-review\/","title":{"rendered":"H-4 EAD Rescission Proposal Remains Under Federal Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) filed a status report in response to a court order in\u00a0<em>Save Jobs USA v DHS<\/em>, a lawsuit that challenges the work authorization for H-4 spouses of H-1B beneficiaries. According to the status report, the proposal for rescinding H-4 work authorization is still under federal review. DHS has also not provided an expected timeframe for when it would publish the proposal for public feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Back in February 2019, DHS sent the proposed rule to rescind employment authorization for spouses of H-1B workers to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). While proposed rules often go through the OMB process within a few months, the DHS&#8217;s proposal to rescind H-4 work authorization appears to be undergoing a lengthier federal review process than normal, with no timeline in sight for the next step for the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2017, the Trump Administration first announced that it would review and reconsider the H-4 work authorization program. The H-4 work authorization program has been in place since March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Once the proposal clears the OMB and is published, the public will be able to provide feedback for a 30-60 day period. After the completion of the public feedback period, DHS will review the feedback and the proposal will go to OMB for further review before the publication of a final rule.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no impact on H-4 spouses of H-1B beneficiaries, and DHS will continue to accept and adjudicate new H-4 EAD applications and renewals under the current rules until the finalization and implementation of H-4 rescission.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact our office if you have any further questions regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) filed a status report in response to a court order in\u00a0Save Jobs USA v DHS, a lawsuit that challenges the work authorization for H-4 spouses of H-1B beneficiaries. According to the status report, the proposal for rescinding H-4 work authorization is still under federal review. DHS has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17,14,8,9,11,38,10],"tags":[73,44,103,26],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}