The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows US companies to employ foreign skilled workers that require theoretical or technical expertise in various fields . Companies depend on H-1B to hire thousands of employees each year from underdeveloped countries like India and China.
In most policy documents for Indian-Americans published on the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day, the Biden Campaign also emphasised their support to family-based immigration system and streamlining processing for religious worker visas.
The administration will also take steps forward to stem the rising hate and bigotry, address the security that is needed for house of worship, put end to language barriers and honour the diversity and contributions of Indian-Americans.
The campaign said, “He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration based on macroeconomic conditions and exempt from any cap recent graduates of PhD programmes in STEM fields.”
The campaign also said “And, he will support first reforming the temporary visa system for high-skill, specialty jobs to protect wages and workers, then expanding the number of visas offered and eliminating the limits on employment-based Green Cards by country, which have kept so many Indian families in waiting for too long.”
