Immigrants working in the US healthcare industry on work visas are risking their health to maintain their legal status during the coronavirus pandemic. Over half a million people live in the US on H-1B visas, which means they must be sponsored by an employer in order to stay in the […]
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php Many people in the tech industry are choosing to move to Canada over the US because of the US’ restrictive immigration laws. Since 2013, Toronto has added more tech jobs than any other place in North America, including Silicon Valley. 25% of Canada’s overall workforce are immigrants, and in […]
While the US has long been a tech sector destination, the country’s recent political climate has pushed noncitizen tech workers to reconsider their options – and Canada could be benefiting, Axios reported. Axios cited a study from the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology which found that even before the […]
President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to suspend a collection of immigrant visas until the end of 2020. One of the affected visas is the H-1B, which tech companies often use to attract talent. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted he “very much” disagreed with the decision and said H-1B […]
Tens of thousands of skilled, educated foreign workers are rushing to file their H-1B visa applications when processing opens on April 1. But many of them will be rejected – either by the highly selective lottery, or by delays that lawyers and experts attribute to the Trump administration’s crackdown on […]
The Trump administration has been cracking down on a highly coveted visa program for skilled, highly educated foreign workers. One of those workers, Leo Wang, left the United States on February 18 after his H-1B visa petition was denied. “This is supposed to be the place where you are very […]
The Trump administration has ramped up scrutiny of the H-1B visa program. US Citizenship and Immigration Services data released Friday show the agency is rejecting more H-1B applications. Over the last two years, the agency has more than doubled the instances in which it asks for additional supporting information. Some […]
Silicon Valley, a vital part of America’s economic edge, is the global center of the digital revolution. But back in the late 1970s, the center of technology revolution wasn’t guaranteed to occur in the US. H-1B visas and skilled foreign workers changed that. After the US repealed immigration quotas in […]
For 15 years in a row, the number of applicants for H-1B work visas has far exceeded the program’s cap of 85,000 available visas. The H-1B program, which allows US companies to bring in foreign workers in specialised fields like maths, science and engineering, has long been a magnet for […]
H-1B visas are highly concentrated on the East Coast and in Texas, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. The H-1B visa program provides visas to highly skilled foreign workers. Nationwide, workers with H-1B visas earned a yearly salary of $US80,600 on average from 2010 to 2016. In some […]
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