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US employer-sponsored work visa whose holders generally have 60 days after a layoff to find new sponsorship or leave the country.
Labor Department investigators have subpoenaed nine universities, Harvard and MIT among them, over J-1 visas held by foreign postdocs. The White House did not immediately source Vance's case, a 61% J-1 rate at the schools against a 38% national average.
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Homeland Security proposed making US schools pay $70,000 for each international student entering the OPT work program, plus $30,000 per renewal. Colleges would be paying for one of their main recruiting draws, and Fortune reported that new foreign enrollment fell 17% last fall.
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US officials are suspending Microsoft, Cognizant, Capgemini and five other named firms from the PERM green-card program, citing alleged fraud. Meta, Amazon and Google keep access, leaving the named firms to recruit against rivals that can still sponsor.
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The charge is 20 to 50 times current levels and is being pushed through despite adverse rulings. What it reprices is not the paperwork but where companies put the work.
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A March court filing shows DHS collected the fee on 85 applications in five months and took in about $28 million less than the year before, while all 25 tech companies IEEE Spectrum asked about their response stayed quiet.
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Repeated layoffs have made brand-name employers look risky to workers whose jobs hold their immigration status. Two engineers told Business Insider they left Amazon and Oracle for firms they judged steadier.
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