Get the latest tech news
China’s AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream jobs
The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles
Such policies provoke a “fear factor” among Chinese STEM workers, discouraging those in the U.S. from settling, and creating a wide perception that they would be unwelcome at American higher education institutions, Yingyi Ma, professor and director of Asian studies at Syracuse University, told Rest of World. Five staff members for tech giants including Meta in the Bay Area, who did not give their names because they were not authorized to speak with media, told Rest of World that Chinese nationals working in AI and machine learning experienced longer wait times for visas due to in-depth background checks, and have been routinely hassled and asked detailed questions when reentering the U.S. But applications from Chinese-national tech graduates who studied at certain institutions or worked at certain companies — such as Huawei or ByteDance — are almost “definitely going to be flagged for more in-depth security checks,” said Will Tao, an immigration lawyer at Vancouver-based Heron Law who deals extensively with such cases.
Or read this on r/technology
