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> Quitting should never be a surprise for your boss

I get the spirit of this. But someone whos in tech on a visa, this is absolutely the worse advice. The fear or retaliation is real, especially in bigger firms where your manager has a lot of say. The moment higher ups have the slightest inkling that you're looking for other jobs, you'll soon get pushed out.

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Oh, I hadn't considered role-tied visas… that's a good point. Let me add a couple of "excepts" in there. "Never" is too absolute.

Please do your research on workplace retaliation

I know of a case where the manager actually called the INS after the employee left. Protect yourself and your family first. (I'm a manager myself.)

INS?

Immigration. When you're in the US on a Visa (maybe not all of them?), you need to have a job or you risk getting deported.

Thats weird, you still get ~ 60 days to find a new job. In case you dont have any lined up.

Yes, but 60 days isn't a lot of time in a bad economy (2001, 2008, etc.).

It’s changed and by the fact they call it INS (and not UCSIS, changed in 2003) makes me think it happened a while back.

I know way back, TN visa holders got no grace period once dismissed from a job. Unofficially it was “24 hours”, and Canadians could always turn around and come back as a tourist to clean up, but that’s a huge kick in the teeth to someone you just fired.

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