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Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by bradleyjg »

tinyhouse wrote: post #5

Not clear from the article what this means. Would it impact existing visa holders already in the US? What about those who got an H-1B in this year's lottery? Is their visa canceled or postponed to a later date not known yet? (normally for a given year October is the earliest people can start working on H-1B)

It hasn’t been issued yet, so no way to know for sure but the rumor is that no one will be able to enter (including re-enter) if they fall under the executive order but those in the country in status will not be immediately impacted.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by Cyclone_ »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #4

This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive/feed the base.

Seems kind of silly to say without evidence that it's just to feed the base when there's a valid reason as to why it's being done (to prioritize Americans out of work)

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Post by godzillabrennus »

saltedonion wrote: post #3

This and eroding section 230. I wonder if tech companies are going to fire back at trump.

If Facebook/twitter/google wanted to play with fire they could use their platformS to basically vanquish the GOP.

Those three companies control a significant amount of what people see online.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by dx87 »

tinyhouse wrote: post #5

Not clear from the article what this means. Would it impact existing visa holders already in the US? What about those who got an H-1B in this year's lottery? Is their visa canceled or postponed to a later date not known yet? (normally for a given year October is the earliest people can start working on H-1B)

From the article:

The order is not expected to immediately affect anyone already in the United States.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by iamacyborg »

Cyclone_ wrote: post #12
Forgeties79 wrote: post #4

This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive/feed the base.

Seems kind of silly to say without evidence that it's just to feed the base when there's a valid reason as to why it's being done (to prioritize Americans out of work)

Ah yes, we can expect restaurant staff to soon be working tech jobs.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by iaw »

So highly paid permanent resident tech professionals even more highly paid and a lot of non-permanent residents get even more harmed because of their country of birth....

I personally feel that the H1-B system needs to be rethought to encourage a healthier but not at the expense of bringing hard working immigrants into this country.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by ixtli »

Surely this will bring jobs back to America. Surely this will mitigate the unmitigated failure that is the American governments non-response to COVID. Surely Silicon Valley executives sucking up to the whitehouse will make this less damaging and didn’t contribute to it happening in the first place. Surely this will be the thing that takes down Donald trump.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by nine_zeros »

Erratic government decisions can have severe consequences on businesses.

About time US companies realize that they need to have more fault tolerance to support their employees by open more global offices. This is especially true because the world outside is becoming more competitive and erratic business decisions like this will destroy product competitiveness.

As for foreign companies/entrepreneurs/would be business owners with capital, the US is shut. There is no need to do business here.

Re: Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

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Post by armada651 »

dx87 wrote: post #14
tinyhouse wrote: post #5

Not clear from the article what this means. Would it impact existing visa holders already in the US? What about those who got an H-1B in this year's lottery? Is their visa canceled or postponed to a later date not known yet? (normally for a given year October is the earliest people can start working on H-1B)

From the article: The order is not expected to immediately affect anyone already in the United States.

Visa holders already in the US still need to renew their Visa. If this order also suspends renewals then people are going to get kicked out of the country.
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