Giant tech corporations have responded to President Donald Trump’s dramatic adjustments to H-1B visa functions by telling workers with these visas to stay in the USA, in line with a number of media stories.
The White Home introduced Friday that Trump had signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a $100,000 payment for H-1B visa functions. In response, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reportedly emailed their workers 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 Japanese on Sunday.
Enterprise Insider printed the memos from Amazon and Microsoft, whereas Sources printed an analogous memo from Google. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to remark. TechCrunch has additionally reached out to Amazon and Google.
In accordance with authorities knowledge, Amazon workers have acquired essentially the most H-1B visas thus far 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 payment will solely apply to new candidates, not present H-1B holders or renewals.
