Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google join 46 US companies in challenging new H-1B rule

BENGALURU: As many as 46 American companies and business organisations, including technology giants such as Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, HP, have filed an amicus brief that supports a legal challenge to block upcoming changers in the H-1B visa rules.

These companies and organisations have argued that the new rule could dramatically reduce the US’s ability to hire highly skilled workers.

“The H-1B visa program provides tremendous benefits to the US economy and U.S. workers. Numerous economic studies demonstrate that the presence in the US of these high-skilled employees fuels innovation, increases productivity and the size of the US economy, and—most important—creates