Big Tech’s Spousal Work Permits in Limbo: H-4 Visas Explained

Big tech companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are throwing their weight behind the U.S. government’s efforts in federal court to preserve the jobs of spouses of their foreign employees who are working in the U.S.

The companies joined a coalition of over 20 businesses and organizations that filed a “friend of the court” brief in a case at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs in the long-running litigation are a group formed by technology workers who were laid off by Southern California Edison and replaced with workers on ...