A Federal court in the US has blocked the US President's decision to ban an H-1B visa. In a major relief to thousands of Indian IT professionals, a federal judge in the US on Thursday blocked the enforcement of a temporary visa ban by the Trump administration on a large number of work permits, including the most inquired after H-1B visas, ruling that the president exceeded his constitutional authority.

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The order issued by US District Judge Jeffrey White of Northern District of California refers to members of organizations that filed a lawsuit against the Department of Commerce and Department of Homeland Security - the US Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, National Retail Federation, TechNet, a technology industry group, and Intrax Inc., which sponsors cultural exchanges. The ruling places an immediate hold on a series of crushing visa limitations that prevent manufacturers from filling crucial, hard-to-fill jobs to support economic recovery, growth and innovation when most needed, the National Association of manufacturers said.

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In June, Trump had announced an administrative order that had put a makeshift bar on the issuing of new H-1B visas, which are widely used by major American and Indian technology companies, H-2B visas for non-agricultural seasonal workers, J visas for cultural exchanges and L visas for managers and other key employees of multinational corporations till the end of the year. The president had argued that the US needs to save and protect jobs for its domestic workforce at a time when millions of them lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. A number of IT companies and other US companies and those representing them had voiced their opposition to it.

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