Goggle is joined by 30 other companies to support the H-4 EAD ((Employment Authorisation Document) programme. An H-4 visa is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to immediate family members (spouse and children under 21 years of age) of the H-1B visa holders. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. Google is proud to support our nation s immigrants. We joined 30 other companies to protect the H-4 EAD programme which spurs innovation, creates jobs and opportunities, and helps families, Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted.
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(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.
Google rallies tech firms to support US visa holders’ right to work
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Almost 30 tech companies are pushing back against the proposed block of H-4 visas, which allow H-1B holders’ spouses to work in the US.
Tech companies in the US have rallied to protect a law that permits spouses of H-1B visa holders to work in the country. Google, which is leading the group, submitted an amicus brief outlining the importance of the law to the Department of Homeland Security today (14 May) in relation to an ongoing case between the department and Save Jobs USA.
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.