{"id":8399,"date":"2022-12-22T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/dream-jobs-brought-them-to-silicon-valley-now-theyre-laid-off-and-in-an-impossible-situation\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:39:40","slug":"dream-jobs-brought-them-to-silicon-valley-now-theyre-laid-off-and-in-an-impossible-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/dream-jobs-brought-them-to-silicon-valley-now-theyre-laid-off-and-in-an-impossible-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream jobs brought them to Silicon Valley. Now they\u2019re laid off and in an \u2018impossible\u2019 situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Layoffs have made a precarious situation for noncitizens even worse, forcing them to play a game of chance to stay in the US<\/p>\n

Less than a year ago, K was working with a US-based team at Amazon from one of the e-commerce giant\u2019s many international outposts in east Asia. While the distance between himself and those on his team had made his role tricky, he was at a stable job, at a company in his home country where labor laws protected workers from layoffs and sudden terminations.<\/p>\n

To make it easier for him and his team to work together, Amazon offered him a role in the US and said it would sponsor his L visa \u2013 a temporary worker visa available to employees of US-based companies who transfer from an international office. Though that meant uprooting his family, including his children who did not speak English, K took the job, confident in the importance of his department, the Amazon\u2019s devices team, to the company.<\/p>\n

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\nLayoffs have made a precarious situation for noncitizens even worse, forcing them to play a game of chance to stay in the US
\nLess than a year ago, K was working with a US-based team at Amazon from one of the e-commerce giant\u2019s many international outposts in east Asia. While the distance between himself and those on his team had made his role tricky, he was at a stable job, at a company in his home country where labor laws protected workers from layoffs and sudden terminations.
\nTo make it easier for him and his team to work together, Amazon offered him a role in the US and said it would sponsor his L visa \u2013 a temporary worker visa available to employees of US-based companies who transfer from an international office. Though that meant uprooting his family, including his children who did not speak English, K took the job, confident in the importance of his department, the Amazon\u2019s devices team, to the company. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Layoffs have made a precarious situation for noncitizens even worse, forcing them to play a game of chance to stay in the US Less than a year ago, K was working with a US-based team at Amazon from one of the e-commerce giant\u2019s many international outposts in east Asia. While the distance between himself and …<\/p>\n

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