Recent debates in the US about stricter immigration rules have spooked me and the legal team at the company where I work.

But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .

The changes are some of President Biden's last immigration acts ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

While President Trump welcomed skilled immigrants, he also opposed birthright citizenship for children born in the US to parents with temporary visas, including H-1B holders.

Tesla laid off roughly 6,600 workers. According to labor statistics, it filed about 1,300 H-1B visa applications around the same time.

Washington, US President Donald Trump has said he likes both sides of the argument on the H-1B foreign guest workers' visa, noting that the country needs "very competent" and "great" people which is possible through this visa programme. Trump also said that he has also used the H-1B visa programme.

Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

Arun Prasad Jaganathan has worked in the US on an H-1B Visa for years. He says there's room for improvement in the system.

Federal prosecutors claimed the two falsely stated in 85 visa applications that prospective H-1B holders would work on-site on internal projects at their San Jose computer chip business,

Steve Bannon, once President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist, termed the H-1B visa program a “total and complete scam.” Many Trump supporters sided with Bannon. So did Bernie Sanders ...

Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. President on Monday, the Biden administration introduced updated H-1B visa regulations, to expand opportunities for skilled foreign workers and enhance program integrity for employers.