The Biden administration announced a rule change on who can apply for a H-1B work visa, a key U.S. visa program that employs foreign workers in specialty occupations generally requiring a college degree.
A number of major U.S. technology companies use H-1B visas to find people to work jobs that are deemed hard to fill, namely in science, technology, engineering, and math.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, announced a final rule Tuesday that they say will enhance U.S. companies’ capacity to fill job vacancies in several fields by modernizing the H-1B program to streamline the approvals process….