United States District Judge, Jeffrey White, has temporarily
lifted United States visa ban on a large number of work permits.
After the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump
administration announced the ban to limit legal immigration.
The ruling delivered in Oakland, California, favours members
of organizations that sued the federal government.
They include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National
Association of Manufacturers, National Retail Federation, TechNet, a technology
industry group, and Intrax Inc.
White said his order didn’t extend beyond the groups
comprised of “hundreds of thousands of American businesses of all sizes from a
cross-section of economic sectors.”
“There must be some measure of constraint on Presidential
authority in the domestic sphere in order not to render the executive an
entirely monarchical power in the immigration context, an area within clear
legislative prerogative”, White wrote.
An attorney for the associations, Paul Hughes, said the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce alone has “more than 300,000 members of all shapes and
sizes across the United States.”
The ban, from June to December 2020, will remain lifted
while the case is being litigated.
It affected H-1B visas, used by American and Indian
technology companies; H-2B visas for nonagricultural seasonal workers; J visas
for cultural exchanges; and L visas for managers and other key employees of
multinational corporations.
On Tuesday, White stopped fee increases for citizenship and
other benefits three days before start date.
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