The program, which began under the Obama administration, allows more than 90,000 people to work inside the United States, as long as they’re married to a H-1B visa holder who meets certain criteria. Technology companies widely use H-1B visas to hire workers for specialized jobs, and they argue in their new brief that any change to this program would “be devastating to the affected employees and their families.” In practice, the program has helped the tech industry fill many jobs.
