Mumbai: Thousands of non-immigrant visa holders pairs – such as H-1B and L-1 (held by them on intra-company transfers) no longer need to fear the work gap and financial difficulties produced due to delays in processing Employment Authorization Documents (EADS).
Dependents like the L-1 visa holder pair were issued by the L-2 visa.
The H-4 visa is held by dependents including the H-1B visa holder pair.
In the settlement agreement issued on Wednesday, in accordance with the class action suits submitted by 15 plaintiffs (most of them are Indian partners) and the Homeland Security Department (DHS), the L-2 visa holder will enjoy automatic work authorization ‘incidents for status ‘.
In other words, this means that their partners who are sent to us on intra-company transfers no longer have to submit work authorization before working in the US.
Perhaps more relevant to almost a Lakh India from the H-1B visa holder, which holds a work authorization document (EADS), is that under the completion of the citizenship and US immigrant service (USCIS) – DHS immigration body, will automatically renew employment authorization Visa H-4 to a maximum of six months.
Detailed guidance notes from USCIS are expected in the coming weeks.
Over the past few months, acute backlogs in processing the EAD application, which takes ten months, means that many couples are employed, or even those who are entrepreneurs (ranging from dentists to freelance graphic designers) finding them can no longer work.
Many, including those who held work in the technology sector, lost their jobs when their employers could not wait for months to Ead they were decided.
The problem is exacerbated because EAD can be submitted by H-4 visa holders only six months before the expiration date of the current work authorization document.
Completion of reversing USCIS policies that prohibit H-4 pairs benefit from an automatic extension of their work authorization during the application of the Suffering Document Authorization Authorization (EAD).
Under the provisions of the settlement, the H-4 Visa Holder of the time of their update, continues to have a valid H-4 visa status (outside their expiration date) and will be eligible for an extension of up to 180 days.
However, it must be noted that the automatic extension length will be the earlier than their H-4 status; Approval or rejection of the EAD application or 180 days from the EAD expiration date at this time.
Toi followed up on this lawsuit process and was the first to disconnect the news on Monday, the solution was achieved.
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In the coming days, it is likely that US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) will be supported by American American Imigration Lawyers (Aila) lawsuit, with lawyers Jonathan Wadden and Steven Brown as their litigation partners.
Jonathan Wasden said, “After years of outreach to the agency, it became clear that litigation was unfortunately needed.
Even though the Language of Legal Plain, USCIS failed to provide an incident of work authorization to the status for L-2S.
Another problem related to the H-4 whose work permissal ended before Their status of H-4; this is a group that always meets the regulatory test for EADS automatic extensions, but institutions that previously forbid them from that benefit and forced them to wait for Rea.
“” People suffer.
They lost their high-paid jobs For no legitimate reason that caused endangering them and the American business.
So, when I am happy that the agent finally follows the law, constantly frustrating that an easy-to-fix problem takes a long time to overcome, “he added.
Jesse Bless, Director of Aila from Federal Litigation stated, “Today marks a historic change for the L-2 pair which will now enjoy the work authorization incident for the status.
Aila membership has long advocated for the interpretation of the right law and we are happy to have achieved this Agreement , which includes assistance for H-4 pairs, through our litigation efforts.
It is very nice that the administration sees that finishing litigation for non-immigrant pairs is something that must be done, and done quickly.
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