Skilled Immigrant Spouses May Lose Work Permits in Lawsuit’s Wake

It’s been well over a year since the Department of Homeland Security first indicated its intent to strip some 90,000 foreign nationals of their work permits. The gears may now be in motion for that plan to come to fruition.

The spouses of a subset of H-1B skilled guestworkers—including tech workers, researchers, medical professionals, and others—have had access to work permits since 2015. Despite an early legal challenge, the DHS backed the program until early 2017, when the Trump administration indicated its plan to rescind the permits.

Now, the agency is rushing to complete a proposed regulation ahead of deadlines ...