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Uncertain future for tech worker visas under Trump
Proposed attorney-general Jeff Sessions has long sought to curtail foreign skilled worker programme
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, Nov 22, 2016 · 09:50 PM
San Francisco
THE main US visa programme for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed attorney-general, Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the skilled-worker programme.
H-1B visas admit 65,000 workers and another 20,000 graduate student workers each year. The tech industry, which has lobbied to expand the programme, may now have to fight a rear-guard action to protect it, immigration attorneys and lobbyists said.
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