Musk says ‘so arduous to get a authorized work visa’ as techies grapple with H-1B woes and layoffs

Indian techies working in US on H-1B visa discovered help from billionaire Elon Musk on Monday. In his response to a tweet about hordes of unlawful immigrants coming to Texas from Mexico, Musk tweeted, “Appears weird that it’s really easy enter illegally, however so arduous to get a authorized work visa.”

Musk’s tweet must be music to the ears of Indian techies who’re grappling with layoffs and H-1B visa woes. These days, there have been media studies of the sacked Indian techies, on a piece visa, going through deportation if they do not discover a new job inside 60 days.

Firms all around the world have fired round 38,000 staff in simply the primary half of this month. As per knowledge accessed by Enterprise Right this moment from layoffs.fyi, a knowledge aggregator, 37,866 folks have been terminated from their jobs the world over as of November 16. 

Appears weird that it’s really easy enter illegally, however so arduous to get a authorized work visa

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022 “>

Appears weird that it’s really easy enter illegally, however so arduous to get a authorized work visa

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2022

Meta, the mum or dad firm of the social networking website Fb, has had the most important downsizing spherical thus far. On November 9, 11,000 staff had been terminated from the corporate. Amazon sacked 10,000 folks on November 16. Microblogging website Twitter laid off 3,700 folks on November 4. 

Amazon.com Inc stated on Thursday there could be extra position reductions as its annual planning course of extends into subsequent yr and leaders proceed to make changes.

“These selections can be shared with impacted staff and organizations early in 2023”, stated Andy Jassy, who turned the corporate’s Chief Government Officer in 2021, in a letter to Amazon staff.