As New US Immigration Rules Kick In, Critical Warning Emerges for H-1B Visa Holders

'Felt Like a 20-Minute Earthquake’: Irrespective of legal status, any immigrant who comes to the USA, including persons permitted to study or work therein, may be asked to show documentary proof.

In a statement issued on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said,"All noncitizens 18 and older must carry this documentation at all times. This administration has directed DHS to prioritize enforcement, there will be no sanctuary for noncompliance."

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This announcement follows a US district judge's order allowing the Trump administration to put forth the requirement that, essentially, anywhere within the United States, an illegal immigrant would have to get themselves registered with the federal government and carry documentation.

The Times of India states that it is those who entered the United States on a visa, hold green cards, hold employment authorization documents, hold border crossing cards, or use an I-94 admission record: among those registered and thus not affected by the two procedures.

However, the already-registered foreign nationals, like H-1B Indian workers or the international students from India, would still be compelled by the report to carry their documents at all times.

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Their children would again have to re-register and submit their fingerprints within 30 days after their 14th birthday.

A Washington judge during Donald Trump's first term, Trevor McFadden, determined that groups contesting the DHS rule implementing the policy-those including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and United Farm Workers of America-did not show they had standing to bring the suit.

"As organizations, many of their harms are too speculative, and they have failed to show that the Rule will erode their core missions," he wrote, according to Reuters.

Nicholas Espiritu, Deputy Legal Director for the National Immigration Law Center representing the plaintiffs, called the ruling, "disappointing," adding that it would "force people into an impossible choice between registering and risking immediate deportation, or refusing and facing penalties."

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