Federal immigration authorities improperly used federal drug laws to deny a visa to a software engineer at a prominent cannabis business-services provider, a judge ruled.
According to court records, Ameya Vinayak Pethe, an Indian national, sought an H-1B visa to work in the United States as the director of development operations for Treez, a software platform for state-legal cannabis businesses.
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U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services – a Department of Homeland Security agency – approved Pethe’s visa in January 2022 but reversed course and denied him a visa after he sought permission to work in a different state.
In denying the visa request, authorities cited federal drug law and claimed that Pethe’s job at Treez would “aid and abet” violations of the Controlled
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