The H-1B visa has traditionally been the means by which many of Irish people friends got their foot in the door of a new life in the US. Now that possibility has got more remote. Graphic: Getty Images
The recently announced major changes to the United States’ H-1B visa programme have prompted much conversation about emigration. The H-1B has long been the means by which US-based employers could petition for educated foreign professionals to work in the US. When most people think in the abstract about “migrants”, they probably think about workers without tertiary education – farm, retail and hospitality workers. We usually neglect to apply the term to architects, engineers and doctors, academics who take up research and teaching posts or people who work in lucrative tech jobs in Silicon Valley.
The option of living abroad is something that many middle-class, university-educated people have traditionally j
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