lots of discussion on how this will affect tech jobs, but once again this applies to academia also
every professor you know on a visa will now have to leave the US for a green card, sometimes for multiple years.
many will give up in the process. universities may not give them back their jobs.
Sumitra Badrinathan
🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives.
🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.
