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The Biden administration has agreed to provide automatic work authorisation permits to spouses of immigrant workers in the US.
The move will benefit tens of thousands of Indian-American women. The settlement was reached by the Department of Homeland Security in a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on behalf of immigrant spouses this summer.
A US court also directed the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to allow up to 180 days of automatic extension on work authorisation permits for spouses of H1-B and L-1 visa holders.
This means spouses with expired H-4 visas don't have to worry if their applications are not processed in a timely manner.
The goal of the lawsuit was to remove hurdles in policies that posed many challenges for spouses and caused them to lose their jobs.
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The Obama administration had earlier given work authorisation to certain categories of spouses of H-1B visa holders.
So far, more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders, a significant majority of whom are Indian-American women, have received work authorisation, according to The Indian Express.
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