Edict claims pandemic jobs recovery in suspending new visas under H-1B, H-2B, J and L programs; OPTS is exempt but green card freeze extended to year end.
Shelter-in-place rules, project shutdowns and social distance mandates spurred by COVID-19 have disrupted career starts for this year’s engineering and construction graduate hires and interns—with job commitments and work parameters changing for many.
Project sites set ablaze in Minneapolis, D.C. and Ohio, as construction is shut down in downtown Chicago and in California; NYC sets first curfew in decades amid looting, even of boarded-up stores.
