Wow. Sorry man. Head high. You got this! We need a list of companies who act this way and boycott their products.
It's probably easier to compile a list of companies who don't act this way at this moment
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#12Sadly, it should say that employment is at-will on both sides(employer and employee). Everyone is on eggshells in this job market. Hope you find something else.
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#13What country is this? US? Is it 30 days or 60 days?
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#14Very sorry to hear. The good news is there’s plenty of options to secure your immigration status while figuring out next steps.
USCIS released (somewhat relaxed) guidance on the current environment for non-citizen workers. You can find a list here https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1605392365325205506...
In summary, all the “gray zone” escape hatches like the 2 month grace period or the B-2 status change are considered “in the clear” per this guidance.
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#15Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immigration attorney.
"Smaller places are more trustworthy" is not true at all. They have their own set of issues.
100%.
Family companies are the worst in my first- and second-hand experience. Blood runs thicker than water, and outsiders are often reminded of that fact come promotion/major decision time
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#16Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immigration attorney.
"Smaller places are more trustworthy" is not true at all. They have their own set of issues.
I'd phrase it this way: at a smaller company, you are much more likely to be treated as a human, by a human, versus being treated as a unit by a system at a bigger company.
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#17Rescinding an offer that's tied to a visa is just extra shitty, sorry this happened to you. Surely they know the consequences that you'll suffer. I wonder if the Amazon leadership chain that collectively decided to do this has any remorse.
Edit: Feels like something that governments should tie to individual company's ability to use the visa program. Rescind a visa-tied offer (for no-fault-of-applicant reason), and we yank your right to use the program.
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#19Ah man. I'm sorry. But, you made it to Amazon, you will be wanted for another opportunity real quick I bet!
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#20I don't have much of an advice for you, OP, other than what you already knew: try to find a new job ASAP. You may have to leave the US for a while, and come back to interview on a visitor visa, until you can get a new job to sponsor your work visa, which I can only assume to be H-1B.
The above is not a substitute for the advice of an immigration attorney, which you absolutely must consult.
More generally, I wonder if post-2022, offer letters are going to matter at all. 2022 exposed the fact that their protections was always a sort of a "gentleman's agreement". Your case is a great example of that: your only recourse is suing Amazon, a near trillion dollar corporation.
My understanding is that your legal case would be shaky. The offer letter never provided much of a legal protection, we just liked to assume it did, and operated as if it did - hence why the typical advice on tech forums for employees was never to rescind our acceptance of an offer letter.
Because it was never level sound, we saw the sanctity of the offer letter violated en-mass in 2022. It was exposed as an empty promise.