The US Citizenship and Immigration Service announced that it will stop accepting H1B applications. How to understand that your spouse cannot work?

Hello, the US Immigration Service website officially announced: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will approve specific categories of spouses (H4) of H1B visa holders to legally stay in the United States starting from May 26, 2015. Work. This also made the majority of foreign immigrants who were looking forward to the implementation of this policy suddenly rejoice.

The Immigration Bureau predicts that 179,600 H4s will be able to obtain legal job opportunities in the first year after the implementation of this policy, and approximately 55,000 H4s will be able to obtain legal job opportunities every year.

Xufei Immigration reminds that H4 people who can work legally must meet the following conditions:

The H1B holder’s I-140 employment-based immigration green card qualification application has been approved, and the H4 spouse is the main beneficiary. people. Or the H1B holder is already in the extension stage after 6 years of H1B.

This new policy reform will greatly change the current immigration situation, and a large-scale marriage wave is expected to occur among international students.

In addition, according to the new policy, H4 visa holders will have greater freedom than H1b. H1b holders cannot change jobs at will, while H4 holders can change jobs at will. This gives the spouse of the H1b holder a greater degree of freedom in choosing a career. Couples who have just graduated from school can increase their chances of staying in the United States. That is, if one of them wins the H1b lottery, both of them can stay in the United States and work legally after getting married. This makes it a good thing to get married in the United States after graduation.

For H4 spouses, after obtaining a work permit, they can not only work legally, but also obtain a Social Security Number (SSN). In this case, H4 holders can apply for a credit card, accumulate credit history, keep tax filing records every year, and even get loans to buy houses and cars. Not only that, H4 status spouses can also freely change jobs without employer restrictions, or set up and operate their own companies.