Google Layoff Triggers 60-Day Visa Clock for H-1B Engineer Weeks After Start

Gu Yichen lost his job and his immigration sponsorship in a single stroke, exposing the structural fragility of a workforce that lives at the mercy of the corporate payroll.

Gu Yichen cleared onboarding at Google only to be shown the door weeks later, a layoff that instantly activated a sixty-day countdown for the Chinese software engineer to secure new visa sponsorship or depart the United States. [1] The termination stripped him of the legal basis for his residency with the same corporate memo that cut his paycheck, collapsing his employment and his immigration status into a single, unforgiving deadline.

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