Google leads 30 companies to preserve work permit for H-1B spouses, Pichai says ‘proud to support immigrants’

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday said that it is leading nearly 30 companies and trade organisations to oppose a lawsuit that seeks to stop thousands of spouses of foreign workers on H-1B visa from working in the United States. Catherine Lacavera, V-P, Legal at Google, said in a blog post that a fair immigration system is necessary to preserve America’s “laudable history” of welcoming immigrants from different parts of the world and “to fuel a virtuous cycle of innovation.”

“Unfortunately, an impending court case is putting both at risk at the most inopportune moment,” wrote Lacavera, an immigrant herself.