Find a new job in 60 days: tech layoffs put immigrant workers on a ticking clock
Last month, tech companies laid off about 50,000 workers, many of them immigrants on work visas. Now they have to find a job soon or leave the country.
What if you lost your job and had just 60 days to find another one? That is the situation thousands of highly skilled immigrant workers have suddenly found themselves in.
About 50,000 tech workers lost their jobs last month as Meta, Amazon, Twitter and others laid off parts of their workforce.
And a lot of that workforce is made up of immigrants. A 2018 report found more than 70% of tech workers in Silicon Valley were born in another country.
Losing a job is always devastating, but for many immigrant workers on H-1B (skilled worker) visas,their ability to stay in the U.S. is suddenly
