Recent debates in the US about stricter immigration rules have spooked me and the legal team at the company where I work.

"Why is this being suppressed? I talked to a bunch of mainstream media. They go, we've not heard of this. We haven't heard of the murder."

The changes are some of President Biden's last immigration acts ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

While President Trump welcomed skilled immigrants, he also opposed birthright citizenship for children born in the US to parents with temporary visas, including H-1B holders.

But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .

Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."

Tesla laid off roughly 6,600 workers. According to labor statistics, it filed about 1,300 H-1B visa applications around the same time.

Proposed changes to the H-1B visa programme include raising the minimum salary requirement from $60,000 to $120,000 or higher, potentially affecting entry- and mid-level professionals.

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

A vitriolic debate has engulfed what’s typically an arcane corner of immigration policy: the H-1B visa for college-educated foreigners. Proponents say the visa is an essential but insufficient pipeline of global talent for hard-to-fill jobs — jobs that ...

Arun Prasad Jaganathan has worked in the US on an H-1B Visa for years. He says there's room for improvement in the system.

Federal prosecutors claimed the two falsely stated in 85 visa applications that prospective H-1B holders would work on-site on internal projects at their San Jose computer chip business,