American companies, including the biggest H-1B visa issuer Amazon.com Inc., have told employees who hold such permits to return to the US immediately, after Donald Trump ushered in the “gilded age of US immigration”.
The USCIS said that it has already started selecting the registrations for H-1B visa submitted earlier. (Representational Image)
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“If you have H-1B status and are in the US, stay in the country for now,” the world’s largest e-commerce firm told employees in a note seen by Reuters. Amazon also has recommended employees who hold H-1B and H-4 visas to return to the US before midnight of 21 September.
An immigration counsel for JPMorgan Chase & Co. has told its H-1B visa holders to remain in the US and avoid international travel until further guidance, according to an internal email.
Microsoft Corp. has also told its H-1B visa and H-4 visa holders to remain in the US for the “foreseeable future” and strongly recommended those abroad to return immediately.
Tushar Deep Singh is a business journalist and digital editorial leader with 12 years of experience in financial journalism. Currently Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times, he is building the HT Business vertical and managing the newsletters for both Livemint and HT. When not in the newsroom, he can be found on a motorcycle. Throughout his career, Tushar has been instrumental in scaling digital publishing operations at some of India’s largest financial news websites. His six-year tenure at Mint—the first job—saw him plunge into online media to deliver record-breaking digital engagement for Livemint.com, including 7.2 million page views on 2017 UP Election Results day. He held fort at Livemint during a senior-level leadership transition later that year. That won him the HT Media Star Award (Bronze) in 2017 and a Certificate of Appreciation for Editorial Excellence in 2018. As the head of the digital desk at ETtech, he curated two daily, full-stack newsletters from an editorial as well as product perspective. At NDTV Profit, he transitioned from website editor to principal correspondent, reporting on the auto sector for the TV channel and website, thereby adding yet another layer to his editorial expertise. He is a post-graduate in journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, and a graduate from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.
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