H1B employees should not face arrests: rights groups
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 06:32 IST
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Washington: Two immigration rights groups have filed an amicus brief in a US court arguing that an H-1B employee should not face arrest, detention or deportation after his initial period of admission expires if a pending extension request remains under review. The brief, filed in federal district court in Connecticut, by Legal Action Center of the American Immigration Council (LAC) and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), maintains that H-1B employers who follow the law should not lose valuable employees because of widespread delays at immigration processing centers. "Both existing law and common sense dictate that the government cannot sit on an employer's H-1B extension request and then arrest the employee due to its own processing delays," said Melissa Crow, director of the LAC.
Source: PTI
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