‘Potential legal loophole’ in Trump H-1B ban, says immigration lawyer Sheela Murthy
The HinduOn June 22, the White House made a proclamation restricting the issuance of non-immigrant work visas across the board, which U.S. President Donald Trump said was to clamp down on American jobs going to foreign workers, a policy that his administration has consistently prioritised. Narayan Lakshman caught up with Sheela Murthy, founder of the Murthy Law Firm specialising in immigration cases and based out of Maryland, U.S., to discuss the impact of the Trump administration’s policies on immigration. The politics of Trump's H-1B ban and a potential legal loophole | In Focus podcast What is your sense of the long arc of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, starting from 2016? On the other hand, if some of those people have other visas, let’s say tourist visas, the way the proclamation is written, for them there may be a potential legal loophole to enter the U.S. on that visa and attend meetings or travel on vacation as per the visa requirements, and within the legal time frame necessary to avoid fraud allegations, file for a change of status within the U.S. legally, to switch from their existing visa to H-1B.