Trending News of USA

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Trending News Of USA

• A glimpse of trending news of USA in the month of
  February.

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US visa tremors rock Indian information technology

• Indias information technology industry will face
  short-term challenges if the Bill to double
  minimum wages for H1B visa-holders is passed in
  the US Congress. The impact will be felt by
  American technology companies such as IBM,
  Accenture and Microsoft, which have been sending
  Indian engineers on these visas to the US.
• A California lawmaker Zoe Lofgren on Tuesday
  introduced a Bill in the US Congress
  requiring companies that employ workers on H1B
  visas to double their minimum pay to 130,000 a
  year, the first revision  proposed in nearly two
  decades. The legislative process will take time.
• US President Donald Trump was likely to issue an
  executive order restricting H1B visas, his
  spokesperson Sean Spicer said separately.

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Revoking of OPT extension by Trump to divert
Indian STEM students elsewhere

• Newly-elected US president Donald Trump's plans
  to reverse extension of Optional Practical
  Training (OPT) for science, technology,
  engineering and mathematics (STEM) students could
  benefit immigrant-friendly nations like
  Australia, Canada and New Zealand, among others.
• OPT allows foreign STEM students to extend their
  stay in the US after completion of studies for
  6-12 months under student visa. Foreign students
  are found to make use of OPT to either look for
  jobs or apply for further education or simply
  float around till the OPT term expires.
• The regime of previous US president Barack
  Obama had looked to extend the same to over three
  years but ran out of time with the country going
  into elections.
• Read more here..

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Trump then Won't hesitate in banning lobbyists.
Trump now You're hired

• During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly
  welcomed the idea of banning lobbyists from
  his administration.
• Fast forward eight months, and now-President
  Trump is welcoming them in.
• Last June on CBS's "Face the Nation," host John
  Dickerson asked Donald Trump Given the
  candidate's drumbeat of criticism of the
  Washington lobbyist class, Will you say
  2018No lobbyists will work for me and no big
  donors?
• "I would have no problem with it, honestly,"
  Trump responded.
• Full article here.

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Why Facebook is most vulnerable to proposed
changes in H1B visa scheme

• Among Silicon Valleys top tech
  employers, Facebook could be the most vulnerable
  to US President Donald Trumps expected crackdown
  on guest-worker visas, according to a Reuters
  analysis of US Labor Department filings.
• More than 15 per cent of Facebooks US employees
  in 2016 used a temporary work visa, giving the
  social media leader a legal classification as a
  H1B dependent company. That is a higher
  proportion than Alphabets Google, Apple,
  Amazon.com or Microsoft.
• That could cause problems for Facebook if Trump
  or Congress decide to make the H1B program more
  restrictive, as the president and some Republican
  lawmakers have threatened to do.

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From Trump's Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National
Security Crisis in the Open

• President Trump and his top aides coordinated
  their response to North Koreas missile test on
  Saturday night in full view of diners at Mr.
  Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a
  remarkable public display of presidential
  activity that is almost always conducted in
  highly secure settings.
• The scene of aides huddled over their computers
  and the president on his cellphone at his clubs
  terrace was captured by a club member dining
  not far away and published in pictures on his
  Facebook account. The images also show Mr. Trump
  conferring with his guest at the resort, Shinzo
  Abe, the Japanese prime minister.
• Shortly before the club member, Richard DeAgazio,
  who joined Mr. Trumps club recently, took the
  pictures, North Korea test-fired a ballistic
  missile into the sea off its eastern coast. Mr.
  DeAgazio posted his photographs to Facebook as
  the two leaders and their staff members reviewed
  documents and worked on their laptops, using
  cellphones as flashlights.
• More information available here.

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