{"id":15325,"date":"2020-06-23T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:48:31","slug":"trump-temporarily-halts-many-new-job-visas-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15325","title":{"rendered":"Trump temporarily halts many new job visas for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that bars many new employment-based visas from being issued this year, including the type of visas generally used for high-skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to H1-B visas, Trump&#8217;s order bars his administration from issuing new H-4 visas for the spouses of H-1B and H-2B visa holders, H-2B visas for seasonal workers and L visas for executives at large companies for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p>J visas for education immigration will also be halted.<\/p>\n<p>Those who already have valid visas will not be affected, even if they are currently outside of the US. But over half a million people are expected to be prevented from entering the country legally on the employment visas, a senior administration official told reporters ahead of the order&#8217;s official unveiling.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to block the new visas is a protectionist effort by the president to shield American workers from foreign competition for jobs as the US struggles to recover from the economic devastation caused by the corona virus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long touted a hard line on migration to the US, both legal and illegal, and has ramped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric heading into Nov. 3&#8217;s presidential election, where he is set to face presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump in April issued another executive order to halt all legal permanent immigration to the US for at least 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>That order only applied to those seeking permanent residency, meaning green card-seekers, but did not apply to individuals seeking US entry on a temporary basis. But he later acknowledged that he was considering additional orders that could further narrow eligibility for US entry.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans lost their jobs amid the pandemic as various state governors ordered non-essential businesses to halt operations, and many businesses that were deemed essential were ordered to operate on a reduced basis.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment continues to exceed 13% in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u00a0 US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that bars many new employment-based visas from being issued this year, including the type of visas generally used for high-skilled workers. In addition to H1-B visas, Trump&#8217;s order bars his administration from issuing new H-4 visas for the spouses of H-1B and H-2B visa holders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15326,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions\/15326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}