Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester

Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by eli_gottlieb on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:33PM (#13510754)

> I believe Google would be happy to have him in London, Zurich, or Canada. We have solid engineering teams in all of them.

As I understood it, he had gone through the interview process and been offered a specific role in Mountain View, for which they then couldn't get the visa. This was back in 2015, so no Trump craziness yet then, just the ordinary bureaucratic stuff.

And just to express my butthurt, Israelis don't even get visa-free tourism to the United States.

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Re:Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return f... by tehlike on Saturday January 28, 2017 @07:43PM (#13510809)

The h1b cap is crazy, unfortunately. If he has a phd he could have gone through eb1 route, but i am not an expert on that.

That said, it looks like it's past now. Good luck to your friend.

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