{"id":857,"date":"2021-05-26T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:20:41","slug":"dhs-formally-rescinds-a-regulation-that-sought-to-tighten-h-1b-program-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/dhs-formally-rescinds-a-regulation-that-sought-to-tighten-h-1b-program-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Formally Rescinds a Regulation that Sought to Tighten H-1B Program Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (<strong>DHS<\/strong>) has removed from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) an <strong>8th October 2020<\/strong>, interim final rule (IFR) that would have tightened the criteria for the <strong>H-1B program<\/strong>. Although the Trump-era guideline never took effect because of a federal court ruling. The present notification officially revokes it and reinstates longstanding <strong>H-1B eligibility criteria<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notice has been published in the Federal Register on<strong> 19th May 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Background on the IFR and litigation | H-1B Program Criteria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On 8th October 2020, <strong>DHS and DOL<\/strong> gave companion rules targeting <strong>employment-based immigration<\/strong>, and especially the H-1B program. The rules were given as <strong>interim final regulations<\/strong>, which means they could take effect before public comments were considered. The agencies justified expedited review and <strong>implementation of the rules <\/strong>on the grounds that a fast track was important to help <strong>U.S. workers<\/strong> amid the economic impact of the <strong>COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DHS rule, which was scheduled to take effect on<strong> 7th December 2020,<\/strong> would have revised the definition of \u201cspecialty occupation&#8221;. Placed new restrictions on the placement of <strong>H-1B workers <\/strong>at third-party worksites, and reestablished agreement and itinerary requirements. The DOL rule, which took effect quickly on 8th October 2020, rebuilt the prevailing wage system for <strong>H-1B, E-3, and H-1B1 nonimmigrant cases<\/strong> and the PERM labor certification program. Resulting in significantly higher government prevailing wage minimums for <strong>foreign professional workers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-right\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/h-1b-visa-approvals-should-be-for-six-years-suggests-cato-institutes-david-bier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">H-1B visa approvals should be for six years, suggests CATO Institute\u2019s, David Bier<\/span><\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The rules were quickly challenged in court, and on <strong>December 1, 2020<\/strong>. A federal district court in California put them away. Also, observing that the agencies did not have a great aim to bypass notice and comment rulemaking in violation of the <strong>Administrative Procedures Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two agencies promptly suspended the implementation rules. However, DOL, at last, published a revised version of its <strong>prevailing wage rule<\/strong>. After taking the comments it received in response to the IFR into consideration. That rule is scheduled to take effect in <strong>November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>What today\u2019s notice in the Federal Register means for employers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By reestablishing the earlier <strong>regulatory language<\/strong>, DHS is putting to rest the Trump-era guideline. However, the Biden Government may propose its own regulatory changes to the <strong>H-1B program<\/strong> in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has removed from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[554,618,215,659,598,271,665,667,59,84,666,60,439,99],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DHS Rescinds a Regulation that Sought to Tighten H-1B Program Criteria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The regulation had never formally taken effect, DHS\u2019s action today officially reinstates the longstanding H-1B Program criteria into the CFR.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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