Amazon Allows Stranded H-1B Employees to Work Remotely from India Amid Massive Visa Delays

Amazon has introduced a tightly constrained remote-work exception for H-1B employees stranded in India until March 2, 2026, after new U.S. visa rules requiring social media screening caused severe processing backlogs. With 14,783 certified H-1B applications in fiscal 2024, Amazon and peers like Google and Microsoft now face mounting disruption to global engineering teams.