Ashwin Sharma’s Post

Quoted in CBC's Analysis of Canada's Remarkably Successful Tech Strategy: How They Outsmarted the U.S. by Scooping Up 10,000 STEM H-1B Visa Holders in Less Than 48 Hours.

It was a true honor to have been invited by Jawaharlal Nehru University to speak on Swami Vivekananda's message to the youth of India at its annual National Youth Day celebration.

I was interviewed by News4Jax's I-TEAM on on the legality of the Biden Admin's decision to land 78 "migrant flights" in Jacksonville, FL, a topic hotly contested by Senator Marco Rubio and Gov. Ron DeSantis.

I was quoted today in a Times of India article on #USCIS’s issuance of a game-changing new #H1B policy memorandum which rescinds and replaces two of its previous policy memoranda on H-1B petitions involving assignments at third-party job sites. These two earlier memos had been improperly used by USCIS to wreak havoc within the H-1B IT consulting sector, resulting in historic levels of scrutiny, queries, denials, and the issuance of abbreviated approval durations. Though USCIS still maintains several arrows in its quiver for the H-1B program, the new guidance is extremely positive news for H-1B stakeholders, particularly those within the consulting industry. The new policy guidance is effective immediately, and applies to any pending or new requests for H-1B classification, including motions on and appeals of revocations and denials of H-1B classification.

I was quoted today by the Times of India in its article on the burden of Medical Insurance for laid-off H-1B Workers #h1b

Quoted in another article by the Times of India covering the President’s proclamation of an immigration suspension. #immigration #immigrationban

I was asked for my thoughts again this week by the Times of India for its latest story on the President proclamation, aka the #immigrationban. “Ashwin Sharma, Florida based immigration attorney told TOI, “As per this proclamation, the categories most impacted would include green cards for parents and siblings of US citizens, and for spouses and children of green card holders.” … Sharma says, “The Presidents proclamation is illogical. It characterizes a 65-year-old parent of a US citizen as a greater threat to the American worker than the same US citizen’s 20-year-old son. The proclamation is also disingenuous in that in that it is attempting to rebrand the existing processing delays caused by Covid-19 as a targeted ‘suspension’ to shift public scrutiny away from the administration’s delays in addressing the pandemic, and onto its favourite scapegoat, immigrants.”

I was quoted on Trump's threat earlier this week to ban Immigration during the pandemic by the world's largest English daily, the Times of India: Ashwin Sharma, Jacksonville based immigration attorney told TOI, “This is the umpteenth incarnation of this same threat and this one in particular seems toothless and impotent, though it’s always an effective dogwhistle for his anti-immigration supporters. Anytime President Trump needs an escape from facts and critics, he is quick to break the glass door labelled “Break in Case of Emergency” to whip out an executive order on Immigration. Sharma added, "The simple fact is that courts will block any such overbroad executive order. Plus immigrants aren’t exactly lining up to get into America at the moment. And the ones that are here are helping American companies stay afloat, treating American COVID19 patients, researching virus cures, supporting healthcare technology, delivering food and supplies, and other key roles. “ #ImmigrationBan, #immigrationnews

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