from Envoy Global, a global immigration services provider, found that 81% of companies transferred foreign national employees to an office abroad and 80% of companies relocated employees to work remotely overseas, both because of visa-related issues in the U.S., in the past year.
scrambling to look for a new job within two months or leave the country. In fact, 51% of companies laid off foreign national employees in 2022, according to the Envoy Global report.Supply and demand with H-1B visas have become a major challenge for both employees and their companies. In 2022, there were 483,927 applications for 85,000 available H-1B visas, meaning that applicants had an 18% chance of being selected in the lottery system, according to theLeo Wang packs a suitcase at his home in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 4, 2019. Wang has found himself trapped in an obstacle course regarding H-1B work visas for foreigners.
"So the first big problem is a lack of supply and a supply that cannot keep up with demand," Burke said. "The second problem is processes which are still deemed by employers to be too slow, too analog, particularly compared with those in foreign jurisdictions."
tanyakaushal00 USCIS updated, 'Options for Nonimmigrant Workers Following Termination of Employment,' since laid off H-1B workers 'wrongly assume that they have no option but to leave the country within 60 days.' USCIS published guidelines for Entrepreneur Employment in the USA.