USCIS has revoked multiple H-1B petitions filed by an unnamed major IT consulting company after finding that skilled technology positions were assigned wage levels lower than the jobs’ duties and requirements supported.

For Indian immigrant families — and therefore for many Telugu-speaking professional families in the United States — the consequence is a striking disconnect: a child can be raised and educated in America for years while a parent waits in the employment-based green-card system, yet still reach adulthood without an independent right to remain permanently.

The Department of Homeland Security has advanced a proposed regulation that would eliminate the 60-day grace period available to certain foreign workers, including H-1B professionals, after their employment ends, a potentially significant change for thousands of Indian workers in the United States.

The order defines birth tourism as a foreign national entering the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil, or another foreign national facilitating such an entry. That language is noteworthy because it is not limited specifically to B-1/B-2 visitor visas. The order itself points to temporary visa categories used for tourism, study, exchange programs and employment.