Amidst large layoffs within the American tech sector which have resulted in numerous Indian professionals being jobless, two Indian-American organisations have launched a web based petition urging President Joe Biden to increase the grace interval of H-1B visas holders from two months to a yr.
Which means as soon as fired from a job, a international tech employee on H-1B visas would have one yr to discover a new job as an alternative of the present period of 60 days, after which they’ve to depart the nation.
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that permits US firms to make use of international staff in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.
Know-how firms rely upon it to rent tens of 1000’s of workers every year from nations like India and China.
On behalf of immigrants (from the world, primarily from India and China) in addition to naturalised residents like Indian-People, Basis for India and Indian Diaspora Research and World Know-how Professionals Affiliation (GITPRO) has submitted an enchantment to the President of the USA, the Secretary of DHS (Division of Homeland Safety) and the director of USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Providers) to increase the present grace interval from 60 days to 1 yr (minimal 6 months), the web petition stated.
We be a part of the enchantment and request to sympathetically contemplate the impression of the households on humanitarian grounds. We imagine that this extension will pause this mind drain and be sure that the US will proceed to be a world chief in expertise and innovation. We additionally request elected officers to assist this extension and if wanted introduce a invoice within the Home of Representatives, stated the web petition that has been signed by greater than 2,200 folks thus far.
Based on LayoffTracker.com, 91,000 had been laid off simply in January 2023 and this quantity might develop within the coming months. This has a big impact on them, and their households, particularly on the H-1B holders who would want to depart the US instantly inside 10 days past the H-1B grace interval, the petition stated.
Along with the impression on them and their households, that is additionally a long-term impression on the expertise that the US has. For instance, 70 per cent of startup founders are immigrants. About 50+ CEOs of public firms are of Indian origin. Therefore, the exodus of this expertise from the US is dangerous for the long-term pursuits of the US, particularly within the trendy age of Synthetic Intelligence competitors, it stated.
The laid-off H-1B holders at present have about 60 days to seek out one other employer to file for the H-1B switch or go away the nation. Through the present financial scenario, it will be not possible for these hardworking, tax-paying and gifted folks to get employed until the economic system recovers, stated the petition.
In the meantime, a Fb group of abroad Indians has launched a petition urging the Indian authorities to rent the laid-off Indian tech staff within the US.
Contemplating the continued layoff scenario, we’re requesting you to contemplate hiring the not too long ago laid-off and returning Indian IT staff as consultants as a part of the digitisation initiatives undertaken by your ministries, stated the letter addressed to Ashwini Vaishnav, the Minister of Electronics and Info Know-how.
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