Tech layoffs: 10 suggestions for H1-B visa holders to stop deportation from the US

Employees of huge know-how corporations have been onerous by mass layoffs because the corporations are cost-cutting measures amid inflation and a decline in revenues. While layoffs have been onerous on everybody, the most important sufferer of it has been the H1-B visa holders, working within the US. Around 5-15% of the overall laid offs workers are H1-B visa holders. These folks solely have 60 days to discover a new job, or else they are going to be deported from the US.

According to Deebarghya Das, founder engineer at Glean, the immigrants who’ve been staying within the US for greater than 10 years have been informed, “We don’t need you anymore. Leave”.

Further Das, the Founder engineer at Glean shared 10 suggestions for the laid-off H1-B visa holders that how they’ll forestall their deportation:

Tech layoffs have an effect on immigrants probably the most!

5–15% of the 100k+ layoffs are H-1B holders.

In 60 days (30-45 in apply), they have to discover a new job or be deported from the US.

Families who’ve been right here 10+yrs are informed “We don’t need you anymore. Leave.”

10+ tricks to keep–

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— Deedy (@debarghya_das) November 16, 2022

1. Interview instantly, and broadly. Look at Startups on AngelList. Reach out to smaller corporations in writing or your recruiter and clarify your timeline.

2. Remember, your new firm must file an LCA (7-10 days) and an H-1B. Make positive it is premium processing so that you hear again in 15 days. The I-129 petition has to get in earlier than day 60!

3. If you do not discover a job, worst case you will have to go away. Don’t panic. It’s not onerous to get employed again within the US (you do not have to do the lottery once more). Your new H-1B must be “consular processing” which takes extra time for visa interviews and so forth however there is a means, Das wrote on Twitter.

4. Consider making use of for O-1 for “extraordinary ability”. A superb lawyer can inform you should you’re eligible, and also you may be. This is not tied to an employer. Premium processing is offered.

5. Unlikely, however attempt to negotiate along with your employer for much less severance pay and extra employment time. If you’ll be able to keep employed till the top of the 12 months, your odds are a lot larger. The vacation season is a nasty time to recruit.

6. Try to turn into dependent in your partner to increase your timeline.

7. Consider going again to highschool on an F-1. There are low-cost faculties that permit this.

8. Change to a B1 customer visa in case your employer allows you to and extends your time. You’ll have to do an H-1B change of standing whenever you get a job.

9. With an accredited I-140 for an EB2 or EB3 GC, you will have to file a PERM with the brand new employer however can retain your previous precedence date.

10. Go to Canada if in case you have a PR or customer visa. You can re-enter the US with an previous legitimate H-1B stamp and a brand new accredited I797

However, Das suggested the readers to do analysis of their very own earlier than adhering to the aforementioned suggestions.

“I am not an immigration lawyer, so please do your own research too before you follow these tips,” he wrote.

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