Tens of thousands of foreign workers are rushing to file their H-1B visa applications by April 1. Many will be rejected, and some will turn to Canada.
President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G-7 summit on June 8, 2018, in Charlevoix, Canada.But many of them will be rejected — either by the highly selective lottery, or by delays that lawyers and experts attribute to the Trump administration's crackdown on legalAlex, a temporary foreign worker who spent much of his life in the US, told INSIDER he could face rejection for an H-1B visa for the third time.
After nearly a decade in America — first attending a Massachusetts boarding school, then a Connecticut college — Alex walked into an immigration lawyer's office near the end of his senior year, thinking it might finally be time to inquire about switching from his temporary student visa onto some sort of permanent status.
He asked INSIDER to identify him only by his first name and refrain from publishing identifying details, in case publication negatively affects his case or his ability to cross the border while traveling.Getty Images But because of what immigration lawyers and experts call a crackdown on the H-1B process by the Trump administration, even those who win the lottery are guaranteed nothing.
"And not just H-1Bs — I'm talking every single visa case. I've been doing this for 26 years," Jafri said."Every single case I file it seems to be getting pushback from the government and you have to fight for it, when it should be very straightforward."
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