Morell Comments On Stakes For Laid-Off H-1B Visa Holders

Tech companies globally have laid off more than 146,000 employees since the start of 2022, with more than a third of the layoffs taking place in November alone, according to Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks tech company layoffs based on company memos, press releases and news reports.

While it is unclear how many H-1B workers the layoffs impacted, tech companies are the most common employers for these workers. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services reported in March that nearly 70 percent of the H-1B petitions it approved in 2021 were for workers in "computer-related