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Tech Leaders, Including Musk and Nadella, Once H-1B Visa Holders
The H-1B visa program is being reviewed by the U.S. government.
This program allows skilled workers from other countries to work in the U.S. Many successful tech leaders, including Elon Musk (Tesla) and Satya Nadella (Microsoft), once used this visa to work in the U.S. The government is looking at making changes to the program.
The current administration has proposed changes.
These leaders have publicly supported the program.
Some had to overcome many hurdles to get these visas.
The goal is to update the program.
The H-1B visa program is undergoing a review.
President Trump has initiated efforts to reshape temporary work visas.
Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Eric Yuan, Jeffrey Skoll, and Jayshree Ullal are former H-1B visa holders.
Musk and Nadella have supported the program.
Yuan and Skoll spoke about their experiences with the visa program.
- Who
- Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Eric Yuan, Jeffrey Skoll, and Jayshree Ullal.
- What
- The H-1B visa program is under review.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Since January, the Trump administration has been reshaping temporary work visas.
- Why
- To reform the H-1B visa program.
Key facts
- Program Under Review
- H-1B visa program
- President Initiating Change
- Donald Trump
- Elon Musk
- Tesla CEO
- Satya Nadella
- Microsoft CEO
- Eric Yuan
- Zoom CEO
- Jeffrey Skoll
- Former eBay President
- Jayshree Ullal
- Arista Networks CEO
Quotes
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
“The idea that you have to give up your green card to get an H-1B is, in retrospect, silly. And so therefore let us in fact take the reform so that it works for us, both our security but as well as our competitiveness.”
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Jeffrey Skoll
Former H-1B visa holder
“For me personally it was a life [and] death fight to get and keep an H-1B visa, even though I had come out of Stanford Business School, worked with Pierre Omidyar on [a student work visa] while we built eBay from scratch”
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