It is that time of year again when employers have to decide who they are sponsoring for an H-1B visa. H-1B work visas are the most common work visas for foreign nationals in professional positions (which are jobs requiring at least a bachelor’s degree in a specific specialty).
The changes are some of President Biden's last immigration acts ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Recent debates in the US about stricter immigration rules have spooked me and the legal team at the company where I work.
But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .
Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."
US President Donald Trump has said he likes both sides of the argument on the H-1B foreign guest workers' visa, noting that the country needs "very competent" and "great" people which is possible through this visa programme.
Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.
A vitriolic debate has engulfed what’s typically an arcane corner of immigration policy: the H-1B visa for college-educated foreigners. Proponents say the visa is an essential but insufficient pipeline of global talent for hard-to-fill jobs — jobs that ...
Federal prosecutors claimed the two falsely stated in 85 visa applications that prospective H-1B holders would work on-site on internal projects at their San Jose computer chip business,
Steve Bannon, once President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist, termed the H-1B visa program a “total and complete scam.” Many Trump supporters sided with Bannon. So did Bernie Sanders ...
Nasscom emphasizes that H-1B visas are crucial for filling the US skills gap, not immigration issues. Despite concerns over recent US immigration policies, Nasscom remains optimistic about the Indian IT industry's growth and its vital role in the US economy.
Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all good imported from Mexico and Canada, and now has expressed an intent to put a 10 percent tariff on imports from China.