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US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer


Silicon Valley’s coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing.

But in the absence of any official policy directives on employment or skill-based visas, and amid a broader crackdown on immigration in the US, attorneys and technologists believe that the administration’s hard-line approach is beginning to impact the tech sector. Entrepreneurs build America, so let’s open the doors for innovators, not shut them!” Nozad tagged Musk and David Sacks, a South African–born venture capitalist and Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Marat recently filed an O-1 visa petition on behalf of a client who was a board member of a national bank in their home country and who had raised venture capital funding from well-known angel investors and VCs in order to start a company in the US.

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