WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, vowed to go to “battle” to defend the H-1B visa program for international tech staff late on Friday amid a dispute between President-elect Donald Trump’s longtime supporters and his most lately acquired backers from the tech business.
In a publish on social media platform X, Musk stated “The explanation I am in America together with so many important individuals who constructed SpaceX, Tesla and tons of of different firms that made America sturdy is due to H1B.”
“I’ll go to battle on this situation the likes of which you can’t presumably comprehend,” he added.
Musk, a naturalised US citizen born in South Africa, has held an H-1B visa, and his electrical automobile firm Tesla obtained 724 of the visas this yr. H-1B visas are usually for three-year intervals, although holders can prolong them or apply for inexperienced playing cards.