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Note that, in general, spouses of H-1B holders are not allowed to work. What this change would do is remove the "Employment Authorization for Certain H-4 Depend

Note that, in general, spouses of H-1B holders are not allowed to work. What this change would do is remove the "Employment Authorization for Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses" regulation from 2015, which said that if you hold an H-1B visa and you have an approved I-140 (application for permanent residency), then your spouse may work. In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident and you and your spouse have the right to work regardless. The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]). So I think the upshot is that this will make things more difficult for Chinese and Indian green card applicants. [1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/employment-authorization-certain-h-4-dependent-spouses https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker... [2] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2018/visa-bulletin-for-april-2018.html https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

s2g 8y ago
> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident Except that process takes another year or so. > So I think the upshot is that this will make things more difficult for Chinese and Indian green card applicants. Oh how wonderful, keep the lower classes down. How delightfully racist. edit: I'm sorry. TIL what upshot actually means.
- hactually 8y ago
  Please don't be that guy and actually learn what the OP meant before jumping on the name calling wagon. The usage of upshot simply means the final outcome - neither a good thing or a bad.
  - tdb7893 8y ago
    It is very confusingly worded. People nowadays often use it the same as "upside". I've been confused by this word before and this is what I found when I looked it up (http://grammarist.com/usage/upshot/ http://grammarist.com/usage/upshot/). The dictionaries still seem to only have the older definition but I've personally run into the newer definition more often in the wild.
    - s2g 8y ago
      That's the only one I've ever seen.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident and you and your spouse have the right to work regardless. That's less than true, because: > The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]). From your own source, China, India, the Phillipines, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all have delays in certain categories (and Vietnam is expected to starting next month), actually, and the waiting times are between <1 and 24 years. (And that's actually a backward looking waiting time, so when you say a particular category is a 10 year waiting time, that actually means it was a 10 year waiting time for people applying 10 years ago, but the countries where applicants outnumber slots are fairly consistent, so those waiting times tend to get longer over time.) Also, because the per country cap is generally the same for all countries in each category, the onss with backlogs are also the ones with the highest number of applicants, so what is true of most countries (an applicant from that country will not face a delay) is less valid a generalization when it comes to most applicants.

s2g 8y ago

> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident Except that process takes another year or so. > So I think the upshot is that this will make things more difficult for Chinese and Indian green card applicants. Oh how wonderful, keep the lower classes down. How delightfully racist. edit: I'm sorry. TIL what upshot actually means.

hactually 8y ago
Please don't be that guy and actually learn what the OP meant before jumping on the name calling wagon. The usage of upshot simply means the final outcome - neither a good thing or a bad.
- tdb7893 8y ago
  It is very confusingly worded. People nowadays often use it the same as "upside". I've been confused by this word before and this is what I found when I looked it up (http://grammarist.com/usage/upshot/ http://grammarist.com/usage/upshot/). The dictionaries still seem to only have the older definition but I've personally run into the newer definition more often in the wild.
  - s2g 8y ago
    That's the only one I've ever seen.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident and you and your spouse have the right to work regardless. That's less than true, because: > The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]). From your own source, China, India, the Phillipines, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all have delays in certain categories (and Vietnam is expected to starting next month), actually, and the waiting times are between <1 and 24 years. (And that's actually a backward looking waiting time, so when you say a particular category is a 10 year waiting time, that actually means it was a 10 year waiting time for people applying 10 years ago, but the countries where applicants outnumber slots are fairly consistent, so those waiting times tend to get longer over time.) Also, because the per country cap is generally the same for all countries in each category, the onss with backlogs are also the ones with the highest number of applicants, so what is true of most countries (an applicant from that country will not face a delay) is less valid a generalization when it comes to most applicants.