In early 2010, it seemed like all of the stars were aligning for Jay Meattle. He had raised several hundred thousand dollars from investors in Boston for his start-up, Shareaholic. And the company, which enables people to easily share online content they find interesting, had just passed the milestone of 1 million users.
But in March of that year, Citizen and Immigration Services denied Meattle’s request for a visa to continue working in this country. And so Meattle, a Tufts University alumnus, was forced to move back to his native India. And he wound up using the money that he raised here to start building Shareaholic’s team in New Delhi.
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When I was at State Street and we were told in a meeting that all of our jobs were going to be sent to INDIA and that Indian Nationals were coming to train to take all of our jobs in the Fund Adminsistration Department, the executive leading the meeting stated in an agry tone that for "no reason at all" 13 of the 25 people coming to train to take our jobs were denied Visas by the US Governmet, and would not be present on the third floor of the Hancock building two days from now to be trained to take our positions. We all looked at each other and quitetly cheered... God Bless the US Government, keep us the good work !!! Hire Americans, its why our economy is so screwed up. http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Greater-Boston-11/episodes/July-19-2012State-Street-outsourcing-40276
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Why exactly would we be granting work visas for foreign engineers when we have high unemployment here?