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With H-1b Visas For the Highly Skilled in Doubt, Tech World's Anxious
Sasha Ortha's visa application wasn't selected in last year's H-1B lottery. Brightcove will resubmit the technical program analyst's application again this year.
Credit: John Blanding / The Boston Globe
As President Trump seeks to clamp down on immigration, the status of white-collar international workers has become a political live wire. During his election campaign, Trump called the H-1B visa a "cheap-labor program" and promised to rewrite visa regulations to focus on hiring American workers first.
And that has left Brightcove Inc., like many other small and mid-sized tech companies in the Boston area that employ international employees, on edge. Massachusetts' 2.8 percent unemployment rate means that hiring managers are often scrambling to recruit and retain top talent.
"If you want to go hire someone out of a top engineering school like MIT, by the time you get there, they've got five offers from big software companies that are many times larger than us," says David Mendels, chief executive of Brightcove.
From The Boston Globe
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