#h1b

Heard they were only planning to let 10 percent all the way to railroad retirement going forward and use the savings to hire people with 2-3x salary on H1B and other visas hiding behind remote work. The work they showed in the BNSF|tech showcase last week was all done by people who were fired so the so called new tech leaders could call their project their own. Nothin to show in 8 months and start stealing projects and firing people who did the work. If we don't stand up to remote work now, all the work will go to California folks while we Texans build the company.

Over the last year MMC has slowly hired on numerous offshore positions and brought people over on H1B visas to pay them lower wages. Now they are laying off a large number of IT employees.

The company is likely going to face serious financial turmoil over the next several years.

If your team have H1B visa holders or you notice your business is shifting more functions to India, it's important to stay cautious and alert.

Many companies are now laying off American workers to reduce operational costs, and in some cases, employees may be unfairly labeled as underperformed to save severance.

Remember, as American workers, you have rights—if your business is laying off while still employing H1B visa holders, it raises questions about the necessity of the visas and the company's compliance. Do file a report to Department of Labor and USCIS.

As a proactive step, consider reaching out to your local congressman to advocate for stricter regulations on H1B visas and offshoring practices. Congress has already taken some actions in this direction, but additional support is needed, especially as U.S. job growth is experiencing multi-year lows.
Staying informed and engaged can help protect your rights and ensure fair employment practices.

If you need proof, check out this link.

https://x.com/realmattforney/status/1976735339843580370?s=46

This is occurring at just about all, if not all, insurance corporations.

If you are not Indian, forget applying.

In fact, if you already work here, you will soon be laid off.

INDIANS ONLY!

Ford has more than 10k employees on H1B/H4/OPT Visas, it's the largest Visa bag holder Automaker in US.
Time to change the tag line,
Great Job Guys!!!

H1-B holders are disappearing

Next trip is heavily tax and higher tariff on companies hiring on offshore operations.

India buys Russian oil yet we continue to offshore jobs to that country. Should this continue? Forget H1B visas because they just offshore the jobs instead. Tell you elected leaders to look at the job board for conformation. Knowledge workers do more for the economy than manufacturing jobs.

TATA Consulting Services CEO K. Krithivasan indicated the company will halt new H-1B recruitment and shift toward hiring locally in the US and other priority markets. TCS remains the largest US H-1B employer with 98,259 hires from 2009 to 2025, including 5,505 in 2025. He said the US already has sufficient H-1 staff, renewals will be selective, and local participation will rise, linked to AI work that needs client proximity and broader skill mixes, similar to TCS’s high local staffing in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Analysts read this as a wider pivot in visa strategies. They expect companies such as Amazon, Cognizant, and Microsoft to favor L-1 transfers to avoid about 100,000 dollars per H-1B applicant, reducing fresh H-1B demand and speeding a move to L-1 routes for US roles.

TATA Consulting Services CEO K. Krithivasan says no new H-1B hiring soon, with a shift to growing local staff in the US and other markets. TCS will renew some existing H-1Bs, but aims to boost local participation, citing AI projects that need closer client work and broader skills.

Analysts expect others may copy this move. Companies may favor L-1 transfers to cut about 100,000 dollars per H-1B hire, reducing new H-1B demand.

https://x.com/realmattforney/status/1976861104736223445?s=46

I've witnessed hundreds of families being tear down as their jobs being replaced by H1B and OPT visas.
This should stop and Ford should stop hiring H1B, H4, OPTand other phony visas out there.

Source below...

According to the Challenger layoff report, US hiring is at its lowest since the Great Recession, with nearly 1 million layoffs this year. AI gets the blame, but the deeper cause is decades of offshoring, financial engineering, and policy choices that depress wages while flattering headline stats. The template was set in 1965 with the Border Industrialization Program, maquiladoras importing inputs duty free, paying cents on the dollar, then re exporting with tariffs only on value added. By the 1980s there were 1,000 plus plants, Ford and GE shifted tens of thousands of jobs, and media reframed losses as cheaper goods.

Tariff cuts on Chinese imports in 1979 plus a new corporate mindset hardened the shift. Jack Welch cut about 115,000 US jobs at GE by 1985 and pioneered white collar outsourcing. The Reagan years touted job creation while more than 1.6 million jobs moved abroad, only 28 percent of new jobs were high skill, and young workers’ wages fell sharply. The 1990s added NAFTA and China PNTR, 879,000 trade certified job losses with true totals far higher, longer work hours masked stagnation, buybacks and options enriched executives while households captured about 3 percent of market gains and took on nearly 40 percent of new debt.

The skills shortage story enabled H-1B expansion and loopholes. Outsourcing firms used cap exempt affiliations to file year round and undercut pay, with 2013 probes showing 36 to 41 percent labor cost savings versus domestic hires. Today firms cite AI while filing thousands of H 1B petitions. Amazon cut roughly 27,000 roles from 2022 to 2024 plus 10,000 to 12,000 in 2025, yet logged 14,365 approvals across sponsor tiers. A proposed 100,000 dollar H 1B fee will not fix exemptions, contractor loopholes, or the 2017 tax code that still tilts savings offshore. Clarity first, action next, press representatives to close loopholes and demand truthful job ads, then keep building community so the pressure compounds.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA7vQKJ8aQ

https://guestworkervisas.com/gwv/jobs_direct.php

GPC has undertaken a large campaign of offshoring since they hired Naveen Krishna. Eliminating roles based in America for years and only using two contracting companies (TCS + Cognizant) both based in India. The IT dept is now 70% staffed by contractors in India (2500 out of 3500 roles) and over-represented locally by H1b Indians. Locally, the 3100 location that used to be primarily American FTE's is now flooded with Indian contractors. Naveen has kept his direct reports to a homogeneous mix but one level lower you will find gross over-representation of Indians. There are also Perm notice of filings hidden from the public job board.

To stop corporations from offshoring and H1Bing American jobs. Only one party puts America first. Supporting the current administrations agenda is our only hope.

We currently have a contingent contractor from "1nF0$y$" working in our department. His role appears limited to issuing written instructions to permanent staff, and he does not contribute to any other operational tasks. His primary engagement seems to be attending private meetings with the Senior Director.

The Senior Director originally from India and now a U.S. resident through an H-1B visa followed by marriage to a fellow Senior Manager in the same department is reportedly receiving commissions for onboarding contractors from "1nF0$y$". Multiple sources have raised concerns about this arrangement.

Contractors brought in under this setup often exhibit inappropriate behavior, acting with undue authority and attempting to influence permanent staff. When questioned or held accountable, they respond with hostility and escalate complaints to the Senior Director. In turn, the Senior Director convenes meetings targeting the permanent staff and delivers reprimands, creating a hostile and retaliatory work environment.

These practices raise serious concerns regarding compliance with U.S. labor laws and ethical standards. Immediate intervention is warranted from Human Resources, College Relations, Ethics, and Legal departments to investigate and address these potential violations.

I’m tired of executives saying we need H1B, how come SpaceX has zero H1B? Exxon/Amazon are more innovative than SpaceX?

Look at that, unbelievable!!
https://www.jobs.now/jobs/165070041-principal-engineer-software-development-distinguished-engineer-software-development-ref-inkota-n

Another set
https://guestworkervisas.com/gwv/jobs_direct.php
type in Verizon

Specifically asking for Engineers …

Who is likely to let go in next round of LRs?

Remote workers who can not come to office or H1B people based on new policy changes

https://www.myvisajobs.com/employer/wells-fargo-bank/

I have seen people at AT&T on H1B visas who, in my view, should not have been given those roles. Qualified American workers could have filled them just as well. There is a real problem at AT&T, plus a manufactured one. Upper management often says they cannot find qualified candidates for certain positions, which I believe is misleading. The real motivation seems to be securing cheaper labor.

I have also noticed a recurring pattern in tech. Once companies start offshoring jobs, especially in development, that shift tends to trigger greater use of H1B visas. This happens because they have no intention of investing in training American workers. I say this based on experience at a Fortune 10 company. These firms are not short on cash, they simply choose not to pay American employees what they are worth.

With O moving towards Government projects does it needs to reduce the number of H1b workers / employment ?

I saw someone's title is GRVM Application development, does that mean they are contractors ? or hired by the bank with H1B visa ?

What you guys think? Is this new H1-B fee will move more jobs to abroad?

Pretty sure major news orgs would be interested to hear about mass and repeated layoffs at a fortune 500 benefiting from CHIPS Act funding, H1-B and outsourcing.

In 2024, Analyst reports estimated that Fiserv undertook another round of layoffs impacting as many as 1,500 employees, or 3.7% of its Global workforce. Some reports suggested the percentage was closer to 5% of the global workforce.

In 2024, Fiserv filed 403 certified H-1B petitions in the United States, a number that is included in the 1,341 total for the period.

I work as a third-party contractor with HCL, in US. Today, me and my colleague (third party contractor), have been told to be relieved in 30 days. This decision has come from CEO as a cost cutting measure.
News is, HCL is releasing all third party contractors, who are on H1 with 30 days notitce.

For those impacted by the wfr and are on a h1b visa, what are the options? Is Juniper going to maintain the status during the severance period?

https://www.businessinsider.com/intuitive-silicon-valley-medtech-company-pauses-h-1b-hiring-2025-9

https://www.businessinsider.com/intuitive-silicon-valley-medtech-company-pauses-h-1b-hiring-2025-9

Dept of Labor is probing WF on H1B abuse. Wf has been identified as having hiring practices that have triggered concern for lack of compliance to H1b program.

Clearly, as we’ve all seen, WF has abused H1b in technology. This has now come to an end, with the company quickly moving off H1b use and renewals.

It’s one thing to use this program to hire where there is a true gap, but we know the reality and see it daily. - that is they’ve brought thousands of Indians with questionable skills and credentials to the U.S. and are paying them significantly less than American citizens while there is no shortage of qualified Americans. Thus, a pure cost play vs appropriate use of the visa.

Hiring people directly in another company and doing another round of layoffs

Be prepared for more layoffs in Clearwater

There is a bill introduced for H1B and L1(aka BTC) visa. Call your senators to add more harsh restrictions!! BTC expats must go!

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would sharply reduce the number of H-1B migrants working in U.S. white-collar jobs.

The bill, to be announced Tuesday morning, would begin to count visa renewals as new visas, so ending the current practice of allowing unlimited renewals for most of the 85,000 visas granted to companies each year.

The unlimited renewals policy allows roughly 750,000 H-1B visa holders to retain white-collar, career-track jobs that would otherwise have gone to young U.S. graduates. Without the exemption, the number of company-employed H-1B visa holders would drop to roughly 250,000.

The Cotton bill would also end the policy of exempting H-1B visas from the 85,000 limit if they are awarded to non-profits, which include corporate-affiliated research centers, universities, hospitals, and government K-12 teaching jobs. The non-profit H-1B workforce is large and growing and is also harming many young Americans who are both skilled and eager for careers in laboratories, hospitals, lecture halls, and classrooms.

A 2016 count by Breitbart News showed that roughly 100,000 H-1B and J-1 visa workers were employed by the non-profit sector.

“Colleges and universities shouldn’t get special treatment for bringing in woke and anti-American professors from around the world. My bill closes these loopholes that universities have abused for far too long,” Cotton said in a press statement.

Cotton’s draft bill would pressure companies to accept job applications from the growing lack of underemployed and unemployed American STEM graduates.

“Reducing the number of foreign workers being imported to replace American workers is a good thing,” said Rosemary Jenks, cofounder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project. “But the H-1B program needs to be eliminated,” she added.

The bill joins the rush of other reform plans being pushed by Sen. Jim Banks (R-OH), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and by President Donald Trump.

“The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security,” said the September 19 proclamation by Trump establishing modest curbs on the H-1B program:

The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, increasing from 1.2 million to almost 2.5 million, while overall STEM employment has only increased 44.5 percent during that time. Among computer and math occupations, the foreign share of the workforce grew from 17.7 percent in 2000 to 26.1 percent in 2019. And the key facilitator for this influx of foreign STEM labor has been the abuse of the H-1B visa.

The abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have identified and investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing companies for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States.

A recent survey showed that a large majority of Democrat-leaning tech professionals see the H-1B program as a threat to their careers.

The survey reported 56 percent of the Americans polled said “they view H-1B visa holders as direct competitors for jobs.” Sixty percent of U.S. citizens said that “U.S. citizens and green card holders should be given hiring priority.”

Adam Mitchell thought he was doing everything right. He majored in computer science at Georgia State University and interned at State Farm doing web development. He’d been told since he was a teenager that a degree in computer science was a guaranteed path to a high-paying job right out of college.

“I was under the impression that since I’ve got three years of internship experience under my belt, this will be a cakewalk,” Mitchell said. “I was pretty quickly humbled. There’s nothing available.”
More than seven months after graduating, he’s applied for more than 100 jobs and gotten two interviews and only one job offer — for the 4 a.m. shift at Starbucks, which he didn’t take because the hours would make it too hard to pursue other opportunities. Among the jobs that turned him down: an hourly role at Costco and a customer service job in the call center at State Farm.

“I’m just kind of looking for anything,” he said. “I don’t know if the tech-side economy is ever going to be the same again.”

Hi all,
With current h1b fee, do you think if any hope for new h1b hiring for QA positions at Dell? Thanks.

With 100k$ price tag for an H1-B and massive tariffs on outsourced labor and overseas remittances, get ready for an end to this scam of a program.

It's going to be a bright, sun shiny day.

Start packing, Saars.

Amazon perhaps faces the most scrutiny. US Citizenship and Immigration Services data showed that Amazon sponsored the most H-1B visas in 2024 at 14,000, compared to other criticized firms like Microsoft and Meta, which each sponsored 5,000, The Wall Street Journal reported. Senators alleged that Amazon blamed layoffs of "tens of thousands" on the "adoption of generative AI tools," then hired more than 10,000 foreign H-1B employees in 2025.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/amazon-blamed-ai-for-layoffs-then-hired-cheap-h1-b-workers-senators-allege/