Washington [US], May 14 (ANI): Google and other tech companies on Friday (local time) defended work visas for spouses of highly skilled tech immigrants
Tech Fights Claim That Foreign-Worker Spouses Help Take Jobs
Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Joel Rosenblatt and Olivia Carville
(Bloomberg) Big Tech is wading into a legal fight over visas to save the jobs of spouses of its foreign employees working in the U.S.
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Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. and more than 20 other companies and organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on Friday urged a federal court in Washington to reject a lawsuit seeking to eliminate work authorization for more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders.
Eliminating H-4 visas “would not only siphon off U.S. gross domestic product, but gift that productivity and the innovation that comes with it to other nations, harming America’s global economic competitiveness into the future,” the companies and organizations said in a brief the court can consider in weighing the case.
The previous administration had filed a ban on H-1B visas and H-4 visas that went after highly skilled immigrant workers and their spouses, now major tech companies are fighting to keep the program running.
If Save Jobs USA s legal challenge succeeds, an estimated 90,000 H-4 visa holders, more than 90 per cent of whom are women, will lose the right to work in the US, according to Google s court filing [PDF].
DHS adopted the rule [PDF] during the Obama administration in 2015 to ameliorate certain disincentives for talented H-1B nonimmigrants to permanently remain in the United States and continue contributing to the US economy as [lawful permanent residents]. This is an important goal considering the contributions such individuals make to entrepreneurship and research and development, which are highly correlated with overall economic growth and job creation.
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The H-4 visa is critical to a couple’s decision to come to the U.S., buy a home and raise children, the tech companies argued. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)Getty Images
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Big Tech is wading into a legal fight over visas to save the jobs of spouses of its foreign employees working in the U.S.
Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. and more than 20 other companies and organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on Friday urged a federal court in Washington to reject a lawsuit seeking to eliminate work authorization for more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders.