Big Tech wades into legal fight over H-4 visas for spouses

Some of the biggest names in US tech are urging a federal court in Washington to reject a lawsuit seeking to eliminate work authorization for more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders.

Big Tech is wading into a legal fight over visas to save the jobs of spouses of its foreign employees working in the U.S. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft Corp. and more than 20 other companies and organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on Friday urged a federal court in Washington to reject a lawsuit seeking to eliminate work authorization for more than 90,000 H-4 visa holders. Eliminating H-4 visas “would not only siphon off U.S. gross domestic product, but gift that productivity – and the innovation that comes with it – to other nations, harming America’s global economic competitiveness into the future,” the companies and organizations said in a brief the court can consider in weighing the case.