Washinton DC: A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the enforcement of the H-1B visa ban issued by US President Donald Trump in June this year. The order was issued on Thursday by District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California.
Noting that President Donald Trump has “exceeded” his constitutional authority, the federal judge blocked the US administration from enforcing a ban on the firms bringing in foreign workers under H-1B visa.
The lawsuit against the department of commerce and department of homeland security was filed by companies represented by the National Association of Manufacturers, US Chamber of Commerce, National Retail Federation and TechNet.
According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the ruling to Donald Trump’s block H-1B visa ban places an immediate hold on a series of visa restrictions that prevent manufacturers from “filling crucial, hard-to-fill jobs to support economic recovery, growth and innovation when most needed”.
In June, Donald Trump had issued an executive order that had put a temporary bar on the issuing of new H-1B and other foreign visas including H-2B, J and L visas, till the end of the year.
The ban bars people from other countries on H-1B or other employment-based visas from coming to the United States through the end of this year the decision of which, the US President said, was taken to safeguard the unemployed US citizens.
Donald Trump had then argued that the United States needs to save and protect jobs for its domestic workforce at a time when millions of them lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In August, the Donald Trump administration relaxed the H-1B visa restrictions and decided to allow those workers who are seeking to return to the country with H-1B visa for the same job they held before the lockdown.
