Massive tech firms have responded to President Donald Trump’s dramatic modifications to H-1B visa functions by telling staff with these visas to stay in the US, in accordance with a number of media studies.
The White Home introduced Friday that Trump had signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a $100,000 charge for H-1B visa functions. In response, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reportedly emailed their staff telling these with H-1B visas to remain in the US and keep away from international journey for now — and in the event that they’re already touring, to attempt to return earlier than the proclamation takes impact at 12:01am Jap on Sunday.
Enterprise Insider revealed the memos from Amazon and Microsoft, whereas Sources revealed an analogous memo from Google. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to remark. TechCrunch has additionally reached out to Amazon and Google.
In line with authorities information, Amazon staff have acquired essentially the most H-1B visas to this point this fiscal yr, adopted by Tata Consultancy Companies, then Microsoft, Meta, and Apple, with Google ranked sixth.
In the meantime, a White Home official advised Axios that the charge will solely apply to new candidates, not present H-1B holders or renewals. And White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in a submit on X that “H-1B visa holders can depart and re-enter the nation to the identical extent as they usually would; no matter potential they’ve to do this just isn’t impacted by yesterday’s proclamation.”
This submit has been up to date with a quote from Karoline Leavitt.
