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Feb. 27, 2019

Proposed rule may rescind or eliminate H-4 EAD program

Last week the Trump administration released a proposal to rescind or eliminate the H-4 EAD program.

Nandini P. Nair

Partner
Greenspoon Marder

Nandini is a partner in the Immigration and Naturalization practice group at. She focuses her practice on analysis and processing of U.S. visas, employment-based and family-based applications, naturalization applications and other immigration benefits, as well as, immigration strategy and corporate policy development, training and compliance, immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other corporate changes.

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So finally you are back to working. It took you 10 years to get back to this place. You had to start at the bottom but you are OK with that because you are now at least getting to go back to work. And now it seems that your ability to work is going to be taken away from you through no fault of your own. That is the plight of a spouse who is here in the U.S. on an H-4 dependent visa. A proposed rule to eliminate work authorization for these spouses has just been issued...

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