Termination of Work Permits for Foreign Workers’ Spouses Delayed

By Laura D. Francis

A proposal to eliminate a program providing work permits to the spouses of skilled foreign workers stuck in the green card backlog won’t be revealed until at least June.

The Department of Homeland Security Feb. 28 said “significant revisions” were made to a draft that originally was slated for a February release. Those revisions required a new economic analysis, which “required an additional several weeks to perform,” the DHS told a federal appeals court.

The notice about the proposal to revoke work permits for the spouses of H-1B guestworkers came in the context of a lawsuit ...