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(Reuters) -Some South Korean employees, more LG Energy Solution in US production sites, are vaccinated for visa concerns after last week’s immigration raid to their common institution with Hyundai Motor, two people who familiarized themselves with the situation said.
LG Energy Solution also asked for their subcontractors to prepare unexpected plans and hire local employees. One of the people with knowledge of this issue because this step threatens to slow down your investment plan in the US USA
In the second largest car battery manufacturer, the world has seven US factories, including four under construction.
Last week, agents of the US Homeland Security Department detained 475 people, including more than 300 South Korean, Hyundai Motor-Lg Energy Solution in a car battery factory in Georgia, the largest one-place department in history.
Many detainees have been sent to the US for construction or equipment installation, work that is not allowed to refuse Estona or B-1 business travelers, which many of them have, said Reuters.
Some of those detained staff from Georgia’s website returned home, many media outlets reported, but it was not previously reported that South Koreans, who work in some other LGS US factories, are leaving.
Other LG energy solutions sites in the US under the ESTA visa refusal program were told to return to South Korea by the end of this week, one sources writes. This includes employees from subcontractors working on sites, the person said.
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Many, if not most, from Korean citizens who worked at the battery factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, have returned home in recent days because of visas concern or planning to do so, the second source said. The site together is owned by LG and General Motors.
Two people spoke in anonymity conditions due to the sensitivity of the subject.
It was not immediately clear how many employees returned to South Korea. Some employees have already done so, one of the people said.
A LG Energy Solution spokesman said Reuters that the company had asked for its employees to go home on a business trip, to return home immediately or stay in their residences. She did not comment on the subcontractors and refused to comment on whether the move would affect his US project schedule.
A General Motors spokesman refused to comment by postponing the Ultium cell-endless company that owns GM-LG plants. In its report, Ultium cells said it complies with US immigration and employment laws, and that its contractors must do the same. The company said the operations continue as usual in its plants.