Some visa holders are complaining that companies like Meta and Peloton are offering inadequate immigration support.
of US Citizenship and Immigration Services data by Bloomberg showed that companies like Meta, Amazon, Twitter, Salesforce, Stripe, and Lyft hired at least 45,000 workers on H-1B visas over the last three years. Because the H-1B visa is tied to one’s employer, laid-off H-1B holders have 60 days to find a new job — or leave the country.
“My employment is terminated immediately with no reason today by Elon's Twitter 2.0 team before Thanksgiving,”Yiwei Zuang, a former machine learning engineer at Twitter. “I am on an H1B visa and have only 60 days to start a new job.” Zuang’s post was shared more than 500 times, receiving nearly 15,000 likes and more than 800 comments full of potential leads and messages of solidarity.
“Our immigration system is broken,” Jorge Loweree, managing director of programs and strategy at the American Immigration Council, told BuzzFeed News. “It’s beset by delays, bureaucracy, and arbitrary caps, and it often forces many people who qualify for permanent status in the US to wait“It’s because of these problems that many people are forced to try to use temporary categories like H-1Bs to cobble things together while they wait for their number to be called,” he continued.
“[Meta] could have at least put a law firm on a Q&A session,” said Ann Min, a Chinese national on an H-1B visa who was laid off after working at the company for more than a year and who requested a pseudonym to avoid retaliation from her former employer. “Instead, we got fucking nothing.” Singhal told BuzzFeed News that she subsequently got 15 minutes on the phone with an immigration lawyer provided by the company. She claimed that the lawyer told her that her options were to: find another job within 60 days; switch to a tourist visa that would let her stay in the country while she looked for employment; switch to a dependent visa through her husband ; or leave the country.
Experts said that the ability of companies to handle immigration issues could determine their appeal as workplaces. “In the future, companies that have in place a thoughtful policy on helping those laid off get immigration resources and legal support will look way more attractive to workers,” Norwin said.
Agrawal and Anand are also on H-1B visas but haven’t been impacted by layoffs yet. “What’s happening is very real for us,” Agrawal said. “This could happen to me too.”he got laid off “We own a house here, and we have a 2-year-old,” she said, “but this is a very scary moment for me. Is this what I really want to do? Is this where I want to live long term given the sheer pressure you have if you’re on a visa?”
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