Inability to Work Doesn’t Justify Expedited H-1B Order (1)

A worker who was denied an H-1B visa when she changed employers didn’t prove to a federal judge that she’s facing the kind of economic harm that justifies the court’s immediate intervention.

Usha Sagarwala asked Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order that she be granted all the benefits she would have received had U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services granted her the skilled guestworker visa. The order would have kept those benefits in place while Sagarwala pursues her lawsuit over the H-1B denial.

But it wasn’t enough for her simply to say ...