Amid the layoffs come one other dangerous news for workers, particularly from India within the US, as Google has paused its Program Electronic Review Management (PERM), a key step in buying an employer-sponsored inexperienced card.

Google has despatched an e-mail to international workers, notifying them that the tech large will pause any new filings of PERM, leaving international staff in a limbo.

“Recognising how this news could impression a few of you and your households, I wished to replace you as shortly as potential on the troublesome resolution we’ve needed to make to pause new PERM purposes. This doesn’t impression different visa purposes or programmes,” an email from a company executive read.

A Google employee posted the email on Team Blind, an anonymous social networking site for certified IT workers.

A PERM application is a critical first step in the green card (permanent residence) process.

The process requires employers to demonstrate that there are no qualified US workers available for the particular role, which has been an increasingly difficult position for us to support given the labor market today.

According to the Google email, with a number of tech companies announcing reductions in their workforce (hiring pauses / layoffs), “there has been an increase in people looking for jobs”.

“As a end result, we, together with different tech firms, have seen a notable enhance within the variety of PERM instances audited by the Department of Labor (DOL) for tech roles — which we imagine is a results of extra expertise,” the email further read.

Google, however, said it would continue to support PERM applications already submitted.

Current PERM rules have been in place since 2005. PERM is an application to obtain certification from the Department of Labor (DOL) for a specific job position in a specific location at a specific time.

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