A U.S. citizen’s revocation visa lawsuit against SpaceX filed under a subpoena from the IER

It also alleges that in postings SpaceX put on job hunting sites and online forums, SpaceX employees specified available positions were only open to U.S. citizens. Potential employees were required to check a box stating their citizenship status on the applications, which was then input into a database that managers and recruiters marked with rejection codes such as “not authorized to work/ITAR ineligible” and “not U.S. citizen/.”

According to the lawsuit, SpaceX only provided the documents more than a year later after the IER obtained a subpoena. In November of 2000, the IER told the company that it found probable cause to believe that they had engaged in unfair immigration-related employment practices.

SpaceX builds and launches rockets, which limits its capacity to export certain technologies and software under export control laws such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The department said that refugees’ andylees’ permission to live and work in the United States does not expire, and they stand on equal footing with U.S. citizens.

The Justice Department said in a lawsuit that one person who was rejected for asylum had nine years of engineering experience, and another who they said had some impressive experience listed.