A coalition including Amazon, Google, and Uber urges the DHS to let kids of high-skilled visa holders stay in the US past the age of 21 without a green card
when my time is up, will I be “forced” to leave? Michelle Hackman / @mhackman : Athulya moved here when she was 5. She competed on her HS debate team, graduated from UT Austin with a degree in journalism and dreams of becoming a lawyer. But because of an unforeseen consequence of immigration laws, she may need to move back to India https://www.wsj.com/... @morrisreports : The U.S. took so long to approve her family's green cards that this @UTAustin graduate aged out of eligibility and may now have to self deport to India, a country she left at age 5, according to @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/... Josh Jamerson / @joshjame : “Although her mother came to the U.S. legally, Ms. Rajakumar is among children whose status is in a similar limbo, but with even fewer protections than the people who have traditionally been defined as dreamers.” great @MHackman story https://www.wsj.com/... @thisissmithj : I have a coworker on h1b who said that it would be faster to have a child in America, wait for that child to become an adult, and have that child sponsor his green card than to wait for the employment-based application. Our immigration system is so broken. https://twitter.com/... Linda Hill / @bulldoghill : “We're educating these kids from the time of grade school through college graduation, and still forcing them to leave the country,” Mr. Bier said. “It's an accident of a broken system—no one will defend it because no one came up with it.” #Immigration https://www.wsj.com/... Scott Spacek / @thescottspacek : As the US needs more talent, it seems like a huge own-goal to deport children of people—often in IT—who came and worked here legally for many years. https://www.wsj.com/... Tali Arbel / @tarbel : just unbelievably tragic. “We're educating these kids from the time of grade school through college graduation, and still forcing them to leave the country...It's an accident of a broken system—no one will defend it because no one came up with it.” https://www.wsj.com/...? Paulo Trevisani / @ptrevisani : Indians make up 82% of the green-card backlog, and...an Indian applicant applying for an employment-based green card today can expect to wait 80 years. Adult children of work-visa recipients are being forced to return to parents' countries https://www.wsj.com/... Sam Peak / @speaksamuel : .@AFPhq has been an enthusiastic supporter of the America's CHILDREN Act since it's introduction in the house with @RepMMM and @RepDeborahRoss. This bill is a no brainer and fixes a nonsensical error in our immigration system. Read more here. 👇 https://americansforprosperity.org/ ... https://twitter.com/... Julie Bykowicz / @bykowicz : Green cards are taking so long that the children of work-visa recipients are aging out of eligibility — and facing self-deportation to their parents' countries. Great read by @MHackman @teresa_mettela https://www.wsj.com/... Annie Palmer / @annierpalmer : Amazon, Google and other tech companies are urging DHS to let the kids of visa holders stay past the age of 21, arguing the current policies hurt their ability to attract high-skilled workers from outside the U.S., @lauren_feiner reports https://www.cnbc.com/... @technetupdate : Failure to fix our outdated immigration system is forcing highly-skilled innovators, entrepreneurs, workers, and their families, to leave the U.S. and go elsewhere. This is hurting our economy, innovation, and global competitiveness. https://www.cnbc.com/... Veni Kunche / @venikunche : wow this is terrible 💔 My family was almost in this situation. It was a different time and my dad's company helped him with getting a green card before I aged out I can't imagine moving back to a country that you've never fully lived in before https://twitter.com/... Brent Renison / @brentrenison : @USCISDirector you can freeze CSPA age at dates for filing and you can ask the AG to redecide Matter of Wang to let kids keep PD. You can give aging out kids parole or deferred action. but.. you've..done... nothing...yet https://www.wsj.com/... Greg Siskind / @gsiskind : Glad to see Big Tech way in. Congress can fix this BUT the Biden Administration has a lot of options for improving the situation. Here are a couple - Spare ‘documented Dreamers’ from deportation, tech giants tell Biden official https://www.reuters.com/... @wsj : An estimated 200,000 children of immigrants on work visas don't have a clear legal path to stay in the U.S. once they turn 21 https://www.wsj.com/... Iti / @iti_techtweets : The U.S. economy is enriched by the talent of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa holders. Recently, @ITI_TechTweets, @Google & other organizations sent a letter urging @DHSgov's @SecMayorkas to help these families stay together. https://twitter.com/... Aila / @ailanational : “Major companies say they need the administration to act to help them retain high-skilled parents who fear their children will be deported, amid a tight labor market and ongoing green card headaches.” https://www.axios.com/... Karan Bhatia / @karan_k_bhatia : Together with other companies, Google is calling on DHS to establish more robust policies for children of parents on high-skilled visas because it's good for the US economy and competitiveness, and because allowing families to stay together is the right thing to do. https://twitter.com/... @jcastaneda1212 : “Tech giants, led by Google, are opening up a new front in D.C.'s immigration battles by urging the Biden administration to allow children of high-skilled immigrant workers to remain in the U.S. legally beyond their 21st birthdays.” via @margarethmcgill https://www.axios.com/... Marc Benioff / @benioff : Children of visa holders face the difficult choice between leaving the country that has become their home, attempting to re-enter the labyrinthine, high-stakes immigration system for a different visa where options are extremely limited. Let them stay. ❤️🇺🇸 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Adult children of work-visa recipients are being forced to return to parents' countries https://www.wsj.com/... Forced? Their parents brought them here on *temporary* visas. I'm headed to Israel this summer — when my time is up, will I be “forced” to leave?
The U.S. economy is enriched by the talent of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa holders. Recently, @ITI_TechTweets, @Google & other organizations sent a letter urging @DHSgov's @SecMayorkas to help these families stay together. https://twitter.com/...
Athulya moved here when she was 5. She competed on her HS debate team, graduated from UT Austin with a degree in journalism and dreams of becoming a lawyer. But because of an unforeseen consequence of immigration laws, she may need to move back to India https://www.wsj.com/...
The U.S. took so long to approve her family's green cards that this @UTAustin graduate aged out of eligibility and may now have to self deport to India, a country she left at age 5, according to @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
“Although her mother came to the U.S. legally, Ms. Rajakumar is among children whose status is in a similar limbo, but with even fewer protections than the people who have traditionally been defined as dreamers.” great @MHackman story https://www.wsj.com/...
I have a coworker on h1b who said that it would be faster to have a child in America, wait for that child to become an adult, and have that child sponsor his green card than to wait for the employment-based application. Our immigration system is so broken. https://twitter.com/...
“We're educating these kids from the time of grade school through college graduation, and still forcing them to leave the country,” Mr. Bier said. “It's an accident of a broken system—no one will defend it because no one came up with it.” #Immigration https://www.wsj.com/...
As the US needs more talent, it seems like a huge own-goal to deport children of people—often in IT—who came and worked here legally for many years. https://www.wsj.com/...
just unbelievably tragic. “We're educating these kids from the time of grade school through college graduation, and still forcing them to leave the country...It's an accident of a broken system—no one will defend it because no one came up with it.” https://www.wsj.com/...?
Indians make up 82% of the green-card backlog, and...an Indian applicant applying for an employment-based green card today can expect to wait 80 years. Adult children of work-visa recipients are being forced to return to parents' countries https://www.wsj.com/...
.@AFPhq has been an enthusiastic supporter of the America's CHILDREN Act since it's introduction in the house with @RepMMM and @RepDeborahRoss. This bill is a no brainer and fixes a nonsensical error in our immigration system. Read more here. 👇 https://americansforprosperity.org/…
Green cards are taking so long that the children of work-visa recipients are aging out of eligibility — and facing self-deportation to their parents' countries. Great read by @MHackman @teresa_mettela https://www.wsj.com/...
Amazon, Google and other tech companies are urging DHS to let the kids of visa holders stay past the age of 21, arguing the current policies hurt their ability to attract high-skilled workers from outside the U.S., @lauren_feiner reports https://www.cnbc.com/...
Failure to fix our outdated immigration system is forcing highly-skilled innovators, entrepreneurs, workers, and their families, to leave the U.S. and go elsewhere. This is hurting our economy, innovation, and global competitiveness. https://www.cnbc.com/...
wow this is terrible 💔 My family was almost in this situation. It was a different time and my dad's company helped him with getting a green card before I aged out I can't imagine moving back to a country that you've never fully lived in before https://twitter.com/...
@USCISDirector you can freeze CSPA age at dates for filing and you can ask the AG to redecide Matter of Wang to let kids keep PD. You can give aging out kids parole or deferred action. but.. you've..done... nothing...yet https://www.wsj.com/...
Glad to see Big Tech way in. Congress can fix this BUT the Biden Administration has a lot of options for improving the situation. Here are a couple - Spare ‘documented Dreamers’ from deportation, tech giants tell Biden official https://www.reuters.com/...
“Major companies say they need the administration to act to help them retain high-skilled parents who fear their children will be deported, amid a tight labor market and ongoing green card headaches.” https://www.axios.com/...
Together with other companies, Google is calling on DHS to establish more robust policies for children of parents on high-skilled visas because it's good for the US economy and competitiveness, and because allowing families to stay together is the right thing to do. https://twitt…
“Tech giants, led by Google, are opening up a new front in D.C.'s immigration battles by urging the Biden administration to allow children of high-skilled immigrant workers to remain in the U.S. legally beyond their 21st birthdays.” via @margarethmcgill https://www.axios.com/...
Children of visa holders face the difficult choice between leaving the country that has become their home, attempting to re-enter the labyrinthine, high-stakes immigration system for a different visa where options are extremely limited. Let them stay. ❤️🇺🇸 https://www.cnbc.com/..…