Giant tech corporations have responded to President Donald Trump’s dramatic modifications to H-1B visa purposes by telling staff with these visas to stay in the USA, in response to a number of media reviews.
The White Home introduced Friday that Trump had signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a $100,000 payment for H-1B visa purposes. In response, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reportedly emailed their staff telling these with H-1B visas to remain in the USA 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 printed the memos from Amazon and Microsoft, whereas Sources printed an identical memo from Google. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to remark. TechCrunch has additionally reached out to Amazon and Google.
In response to authorities information, Amazon staff have acquired probably the most H-1B visas up to now this fiscal yr, adopted by Tata Consultancy Providers, then Microsoft, Meta, and Apple, with Google ranked sixth.
In the meantime, a White Home official informed Axios that the payment will solely apply to new candidates, not present H-1B holders or renewals. And White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated in a put up on X that “H-1B visa holders can go away and re-enter the nation to the identical extent as they usually would; no matter capability they’ve to do this shouldn’t be impacted by yesterday’s proclamation.”
This put up has been up to date with a quote from Karoline Leavitt.
