22 May 2019: The department of homeland security had issued a notice proposing a rule that would ban the H-4 EAD (Employment Authorisation Document), the process is currently at the second last stage.
The process is currently in the second last stage. Once the proposal is approved, it will be posted in the federal register, it may take a year for the program to be completely scrapped off" The biggest beneficiaries of the H-4 EAD program are the spouses of H1-B visa holders who account for about 90 % of the 1.2 lakh visa issued since 2015.