H-1B visa holders' spouses can still work as H4 rule-change deadline missed

The Trump administration has failed to meet its deadline for the second time this year to issue a notification with regard to its decision on terminating work authorisation of H4 visa users, who are spouses of H-1B visa holders. The Department of Homeland Security had informed a US court in March that it was working to issue a Notice of Proposed Rule Making in June this year. At the end of the month of June, the DHS did not give any explanation for not issuing the NPRM, which would have formally kicked off the process to terminate the Obama-era decision to provide work authorisation to spouses of H-1B visa holders. "I have no updates to provide at this time," a DHS official told PTI, noting that he can't speculate on when a decision would be made.