Mother Jones: The Trump Administration Is Denying H‑1B Visas at a Dizzying Rate, but It's Hit a Snag

Mother Jones reports that as the Trump administration has been aggressively denying applications for H‑1B visas, a record number of those denials have been overturned on appeal, suggesting that the administration has been wrongfully rejecting qualified applicants. Between FY2014 and FY2017, the AAO reversed about 3 percent of the H‑1B decisions it reviewed. Yet in 2018, it overruled USCIS in nearly 15 percent of H‑1B appeals. AILA Associate Director of Government Relations Diane Rish explained, "The agency wouldn't apply the regulation correctly and erroneously denied applications, whether it's the fault of training or an analysis not properly done." See the H-1B wage level and specialty occupation documents that AILA obtained through a FOIA lawsuit. Find this story and more in AILA's daily immigration news clips.

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