Executive Order 14431: Enhancing Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Interagency Coordination
• Sec. 3. Consideration of Applications, Petitions, and Visas
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to identify uniquely skilled and highly specialized foreign temporary workers to strategically supplement the United States economy. Instead, the program has been widely abused by certain employers, third-party placement groups, and outsourcing firms to undercut and displace the supply of skilled United States labor. The large-scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain non-qualifying foreign labor has undermined the additive purpose of the program and harmed the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of skilled American workers. The abuse of cheaper H-1B labor places downward pressure on domestic pay. […]