Amazon has introduced a tightly constrained remote-work exception for H-1B employees stranded in India until March 2, 2026, after new U.S. visa rules requiring social media screening caused severe processing backlogs. With 14,783 certified H-1B applications in fiscal 2024, Amazon and peers like Google and Microsoft now face mounting disruption to global engineering teams. Read Full Article: https://lnkd.in/g6e5iuQ9 #Amazon #India #H1B #VisaApproval #USA #DeccanFounders
There are data governance, security, contractual, and legal reasons why certain work is not allowed to be done outside the US. I hope Amazon cleared this move with all of the affected parties.
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