{"id":791585,"date":"2018-08-21T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2018\/08\/21\/dont-allow-h-1b-holder-to-replace-an-american-top-us-immigration-official\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:35:28","slug":"dont-allow-h-1b-holder-to-replace-an-american-top-us-immigration-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2018\/08\/21\/dont-allow-h-1b-holder-to-replace-an-american-top-us-immigration-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t allow H-1B holder to replace an American: Top US immigration official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director L Francis Cissna has said at an event that he would be really glad if the US Congress passes a provision prohibiting American workers being replaced by H-1B visa holders, The Times of India (ToI) reported. <\/p>\n<p>Cissna made these remarks at an event called &#8216;Immigration Newsmaker&#8217; in Washington, DC, on August 15 by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), ToI report said. CIS is a think tank with a purported anti-immigration stance. <\/p>\n<p>The ToI report provides data from USCIS which suggests that a total of 365,000 applicants were granted H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Cissna further said that immigration reforms should make sure that most qualified people, who the US needs, should get the visas, according to the ToI report. <\/p>\n<p>He said that banning the ability of companies to replace American workers with H-1B workers could be a solution. <\/p>\n<p>Trump administration has tightened the norms for granting H-1B visas since coming into power which has increased the rate of rejections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director L Francis Cissna has said at an event that he would be really glad if the US Congress passes a provision prohibiting American workers being replaced by H-1B visa holders, The Times of India (ToI) reported. Cissna made these remarks at an event called &#8216;Immigration Newsmaker&#8217; in Washington, DC, on August 15 by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), ToI report said. CIS is a think tank with a purported anti-immigration stance. The ToI report provides data from USCIS which suggests that a total of 365,000 applicants were granted H-1B visas for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}