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Kai Chen, a Canadian scholar who works in Openai who lived in the SH.BA for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading scientist in the company. In one Post on xBrown said Chen learned about the decision on Friday and should soon leave the country.
“Deepena deeply about one of the best scholars of the one I worked with (…) was denied a green card of the US,” Brown wrote. “A Canadian who has lived and contributed here for 12 years now must leave. We are endangering the leadership of America when we remove talent like this.”
Another Openai employee, Dylan Hunn, said in a post that Chen was “essential” to GPT-4.5One of the models of the Flag of Openai.
Green cards can be denied for all kinds of reasonsAnd the decision will not cost her work. In one subsequent postBrown said Chen plans to work remotely from an Airbnb to Vancouver “while we hope to be resolved.” But it is the latest example of foreign talent that faces high obstacles to live, work and studied at the US under the administration of Trump.
Openai did not immediately respond to a comment request. Anyway, in a Post on X in July 2023CEO Sam Altman called for changes to make it easier for “high skills” immigrants to transfer and work in the US
In a statement sent by email after this story was published, an Openai spokesman said: “This request was raised some time before our employee joined Openai and we were not involved in this case. However, our initial assessment, based on the information provided to us, shows that there may have been some issues of presentation documents. We are continuing to work with our employees.”
Over the past few months, More than 1,700 international students in the USINCLUDING Scholars of the one who have lived in the country for several years, have challenged their visa statuses as part of an aggressive blow. Whereas the government has accused some From these students of supporting Palestinian militant groups or involved in “anti -Semitic” activities, others are intended to minor violationslike ticket speed or other traffic violations.
On Friday, the administration suddenly returned to the cancellation of student visas. But the return can only be temporary. The government says it is working for a “new system“For the review and completion of visas for international students.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has turned a skeptical eye to many green card applicants, It is said that by suspending processing of requests for permanent legal residence submitted by immigrants given to the status of refugees or asylum. It has also taken a difficult approach to green card holders that perceive them as “national security” threats, the prohibition and threat of some with expulsion.
Laborators like Openai rely heavily on foreign research talent. According to Shaun RalstonAn independent contractor that provides support to Openai API clients, Openai submitted more than 80 H-1B visa applications last year and has sponsored over 100 visas since 2022.
The US simply denied immigration to one of the leading GPT-4.5 researchers of Openai. . @Davidsacks https://t.co/rxd3vazj2p
– Ali Parto (@Apart) April 25 2025
H-1B visas, favored by the technology industry, allow US companies to temporarily hire foreign workers in “specialty occupations” that require at least a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. LatelyImmigration officials have begun issuing “proof requirements” for H-1B and other work-based immigration petitions, seeking home addresses and biometry, a change that concerns some experts can lead to an increase in denied applications.
Immigrants have played a major role in contributing to the growth of the US industry.
By For a study by the Georgetown Center for Security and Development Technology, 66% of the 50 beginnings of the US -based “AI 50” list of Forbes 2019 had an immigrant founder. A 2023 analysis of 2023 From the National Foundation for American Politics revealed that 70% of full -time graduate students in the fields associated with him are international students.
Ashish Vaswani, who was transferred to the US to study Computer Science in the early 2000s, is one of the co-creators of the transformer, the seminal architecture of the model that highlights chatbots as chatgt. One of Openai’s co -founders, Wojciech Zaremba, won his doctorate in him from NYU to a student visa.
US immigration policies, cuts in grant financing, and hostility to certain sciences have many scholars who think of leaving the country. Responding to a nature The survey of over 1,600 scientists, 75% said they were thinking of leaving for work abroad.
Updated 5:08 PM Pacific: Added a statement from an Openai spokesman.
