The H-1B visa program grants nonimmigrant worker status to up to 65,000 highly skilled individuals annually.
Elon Musk has pledged unwavering support for the H-1B visa program, vowing to go to “war” to defend it. He credited the program for bringing “critical” foreign-born, highly skilled workers to the United States—individuals who he said have played pivotal roles.
“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk said in a Dec. 27 post on social media platform X, in response to a comment suggesting that the H-1B program should be “optimized” out of existence.
“Take a big step back and [expletive],” Musk continued. “I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
The H-1B visa program grants nonimmigrant worker status to up to 65,000 highly skilled individuals annually, filling specialized roles in the U.S. workforce. Additionally, it provides 20,000 visas to foreign-born workers who have earned advanced degrees in the United States. Musk himself came to the United States as a foreign student and later secured work status through an H-1B visa.
Musk’s defense of the