https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/16/h-1b-visa-work-ban-rule-for-h-4-spouses-of-h-1b-workers-could-come-in-spring-feds-say/

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says a rule banning spouses of H-1B workers on track for green cards could be published in the spring, at the earliest.

The latest hint of a publication date came Monday in a U.S. Department of Justice memo to a federal appeals court that is hearing a challenge to the work authorization for H-1B spouses that was granted in 2015 under former President Barack Obama. Homeland Security has told lawyers in the case that the earliest possible publication date for the rule is spring 2020, but that this time-frame is “aspirational,” according to the memo.