#h1b

Department of Justice (DOJ): Report discrimination based on citizenship status,

such as an employer preferring H-1B workers

over equally qualified U.S. workers.

You can contact the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) to report these issues.

I heard that there's going to be a big layoff coming either just before Thanksgiving break or December break. Specifically in HiL labs, as there was not much output last year.

H1B next target?

Fiserv being heavily dependent on H1B visa holders.. the new rule taking out the auto-renewal of H1B effective October 30 2025 could impact the overall workforce seriously.

"The end of H-1B automatic renewal for those filing after October 30, 2025, creates uncertainty for H-1B holders, as their work authorization will cease on their current card's expiration date, potentially leading to unemployment gaps while waiting for USCIS to process their renewal. This change can jeopardize careers and financial stability for both the worker and their employer. This impacts not only H-1B visa holders but also their dependents (such as those on an H-4 visa) who hold work permits based on their dependent status. "

I don’t pay much attention to PULSE but saw this on mine under Quick Actions. A link titled Review Labor Conditions Applications. All notice of intent to employ a non immigrant H-1B in multiple states and positions. Appears jobs are for $100k or more with a 3 year employment.
So no one in the US is capable of fulfilling these jobs? 😡

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/nikki-haleys-son-says-indians-should-not-be-shocked-he-wants-them-out-of-america-and-h-1b-ban-my-loyalty-is-to-us/articleshow/125250641.cms#

Intel’s workforce:

1. fat old guys waiting to retire and
2. Young Indian h-1bs waiting to get their green cards and bolt out to AMD or Nvidia.
3. Fantasy believers in Intel bubble su6king up to mgmt
4. High paid mgmt just sitting & collecting paychecks
5. Best of the best, leaving Intel one by one

Are layoffs taking into account the immigration status of employees?
I don’t wish a layoff for anyone but when it comes to it I would appreciate if US citizens get preference.

Indian-origin Howard professor Ronil Hira, a well-known critic of the H-1B visa, explained why U.S. companies favor the program.

Despite President Trump recently signaling a need for certain foreign talent, his administration imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B hires, thereby sending mixed messages. Hira noted that many H-1B workers possess ordinary skills that are available domestically. However, employers prefer them because they can be paid less and are bound to their employers.

While some highly skilled workers do come via the H-1B program, it often fills roles for reasons of cost and control rather than genuine skill gaps. Hira emphasized that H-1B is fundamentally a labor policy, not an immigration issue, and criticized its weak worker protections, which make it particularly attractive to Silicon Valley companies.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/they-are-controllable-indian-origin-howard-professor-explains-2-reasons-why-us-companies-prefer-h-1bs/articleshow/125350198.cms

Like Amazon are H1B's targeted in here. Any info on this.
If yes it would badly impact us on H1B

I know it's way above my pay grade but this treatise on teams provides the bottom up view of how Fidelity Teams can be organized. In an ironic power/knowledge asymmetry, I, a low low developer on the front line who has no voice, posses the knowledge that the higher-ups would never know. For example, when it comes to which middle managers to cut, I know exactly who's coasting, who's contributing, who's busy kissing the as--s and who's envisioning... A "who in your report chain you would cut?" secret ballot offered to the frontline associates would work if the anonynimity is guranteed and the trust of the upper management is there.

So I can't be specific, instead I provide general principles here which the higher-ups may consider in the up-coming squad to team mass restructing. Please chime in as your feedback will be incorporated and the whole thing will be provided as my comments for the next Pulse Survey. For our voices to be heard, Please be thoughful and constructive and refain from whining or hate.

(1) Team Nature

Fidelity (actually any enterprise) teams can be categorized along two dimensions:

• What does the team offer (product vs service). Product teams build (dev), service teams operate (ops).
• The context in which the team functions (general purpose vs domain specific). Data extraction load and transformation (ETL) is general purpose, automatic understanding of scanned PDFs is domain specific. Phone reps in the call center is general purpose, relationship management with institutional clients is domain specific...

Some example teams in each of the four resulting quadrants are provided below:

• General purpose product team. The team which builds FidCentral or MyAccess. The team which builds the Snowflake data uploading tool...
• Domain specific product team. The team which builds automated tools to deploy AI Models. The team which builds automatic tools to extract information out of scanned user submitted PDF documents...
• General purpose service team. Phone reps who answer generic customer questions. Vendor database administrators.
• Domain specific service team. The team who provisions load balanced top level URL with vendor products such as AVI or F5. The team who manages digital certificates lifecycle with vendor product such as Venafi(?).

(2) Team Leadership

• Product Team leaders must be technical with engineering qualification and experiences. This in essence is the "engineering driven culture" in Meta and google. MBA's and humanitiy majors with only project management experiences aren't qualified (this is why AWS su-ks innovation and culture-wise).
• Domain Specific Product Team leaders must further posses the domain specific qualifications and experiences.
• Service Team leaders can be less technical and more manegerial, such as MBA's and project managers. In many areas, these managerial kind of leaders are needed more than technical ones.

(3) Team Compensation

• Product team should be compensated more than service team
• Domain specific teams should be compensated more than general purpose teams

(4) Team Assessement

• All teams must be assessed with clearly defined metrics. Both service and product have industry standard metrics: Daily Active Users (DAU), Monthly Active Users (MAU), Net Promotion Scores (NPC)...
• Apply process improvement methodology such as Six Sigma's DMAIC to improve service team metrics

(5) Team Diversity

While MAGA's h1b hate can be extreme, Fidelity Tech's widespread 100% single identity teams are inexcuseably extreme. It's only fair to recall "diversity" in current anti-DEI environment to counteract the extreme over-representation:

• No single enthinity represents more than 75% of any (tech) team.

What do I missed? What do I get it wrong? Thanks.

As a H1b employee I constantly see some posts blaming H1b as cheap labour to replace US work force, I would say it is totally wrong.

1. TI almost exclusively hire non US ncg only if the personnel has a PhD degree recent years. For someone who is not familiar with the H1b process, it is a lottery which has a winning rate of less than 40% and any ncg who does not win H1b in 3 years have to leave USA unless they can proof that they have extraordinary ability to be qualified for O1 visa. A NCG with masters degree but no publications will definitely not be qualified for O1 if they are not lucky enough to be selected in H1b lottery (and PhD is likely to qualify), which make it risky.
2. Everyone who has searched internal openings on myhrtools would notice that every posting is showing immigration eligibility. Only job postings at Kilby/ATD/Some BU are eligible for immigration. There would be NO H1b in fab technicians, and only very limited H1b in fab engineers (as far as I know only PIs, not even for PEs). Mass layoffs in fab environment is nothing to do with H1b since none of the jobs there are "replaced" by H1b. BU H1bs got hit hard in September, suggesting layoff is there no matter whether you are a US personnel.
3. It is MUCH MORE DIFFICULT for a non US ncg to get a job compared to US personnels. Considering current political situations, no employers want to hire someone who costs more to maintain immigration status and are risky to be influenced by immigration policies. If the candidates are equally qualified, 95% the hire will be the US personnel. As said before, openings that are eligible for immigration are all high level positions from Kilby/ATD/Some Bu, etc. The qualification standard is high and most likely it is for MS/PhD only. There is only one reason that TI still hire opt students which will eventually change to H1b, that is international PhD graduates are usually more qualified for the jobs that are eligible for immigration.
4. US has 700 to 800k H1bs in total, which is ways smaller than the tech industry employee count. They are making up only a small portion, and every major company hiring H1b will have a much higher standard on them. They are subject to political environment change and job market change as numerous companies including Walmart stop hiring H1b starting this year. In TI, new H1bs are even not eligible for a fab engineer job. They have a much smaller job pool compared to US personnels and they are much vulnerable towards layoffs.

So stop blaming H1b in the company. Tariff and economy, development of AI, the upper management... There are far more to do with the layoff.

Fundamentally Fiserv is a good company and strongly believe that it will bounce back under the leadership of our courageous, professional leader, peoples' person and The Beloved Mike Lyons.

Along the way.. MTG steps up to standby 'America First'.. Hatsoff..

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5605801-marjorie-taylor-greene-h-1b-visas/

She called the H-1B program “riddled with fraud and abuse” and said it had been “displacing Americans for decades.”

Trump has largely agreed with this assessment but has recently sought to reform the visa process rather than eliminate it.

As you might have guessed IBM isn't one of the employers who is stopping H1B visas; Alvind clandestinely supports DEI and H1B visas as it serves him and the Pipmunks to IBM's advantage.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/7-top-employers-stopping-h-1b-sponsorship-after-fee-increase/ss-AA1QANlM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W099&cvid=691b7179e40d417aa5b9088ddbede24b&ei=10#image=10

I wonder as an American company if they will be RIFing customer service staff in the Philippines or India? Will they live up to their corporate responsibility to the American worker? Like many companies, they talk but won't live up to their rhetoric. Also, H1B visas. Look around you in IT and other apartments that hire labor other than the American worker

I just received a list of new hires in my division at State Street and it appears that only 12.5% had Anglican names. Based upon the names, most of the new hires are Indians and Asians.

I am curious to see what will happen with the tighter H-1B policies.

Trump admin to make decision on OPT end of year.
Many senators already sent letter to DHS secretary to abolish the program effective immediately.

For context , about 500K OPT is used by companies yearly. This is even worse than H1B
Just fresh graduates taking over your job.

For the H1B, MTG already introduced a bill to abolish it. Unfortunately, Trump wants the H1B to satisfy his tech donors and oligarchs.

The recent round of Amazon corporate layoffs isn’t a sign of an imminent AI apocalypse. It's an expression of the company's brutal corporate culture, enabled by its use of the H-1B visa program.

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/amazon-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-h-1b-visa

Indian-origin Howard professor Ronil Hira, a critic of the H-1B visa, explained why U.S. companies favor it. Despite President Trump recently signaling a need for certain foreign talent, the administration imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B hires, sending mixed messages. Hira noted that many H-1B workers have ordinary skills available domestically, but employers prefer them because they can be paid less and are bound to their employers. While some highly skilled workers do come via H-1B, the program often fills roles for cost and control rather than genuine skill gaps. Hira emphasized that H-1B is a labor policy, not an immigration issue, and criticized its weak worker protections, which make it attractive to Silicon Valley.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/they-are-controllable-indian-origin-howard-professor-explains-2-reasons-why-us-companies-prefer-h-1bs/articleshow/125350198.cms

You have people that don’t want to share success in a toxic work environment in some groups.

You have people, everyone, that hates training. Why train a guy who’ll outshine you? May not be in your best interest to give the best knowledge to this guy, or that guy, you need to be the king don’t you? This is a real issue not many talk about.

You have engineers that don’t know their own tools. And for the longest time, majority of the engineers never showed up on sight until fairly recently.

You have engineers that compete on levels rather than working as a team. For example, the H1B invaders 100% will throw you under the bus or like the other said take credit for work or blame you. I found it hilarious to see a bunch of HR people from India firing Americans.

The US pumps out stem more than any other country on earth we do not need hoards of H1B fake talent and fake degrees. India is severely overpopulated I can understand why some people are concerned about their huge numbers and they very much stick with their own and favor their own yet you might have a few Indian friends you like. Eventually this will reach a point where they’ll all need to go back to India. They are not needed at all. They are here for cheap labor and will promote more H1B in invading numbers to come work for near 30 days a month on a what often is a poor salary.

Most American corporations do not respect TCS. They only put up with TCS as they have the cheaper billing rates in the industry, just warm bodies filling up a chair. With the new Trump H1-B $100K visa rules, those bodies are disappearing from the client site.
TCS has no interest in the employees, they just want them to generate revenues.
No wonder TCS abuses their employees.
TCS su-ks.

“The President’s vision here is to bring in overseas workers who have the skills for three, five, or seven years to train US workers. Then they can go home, and U.S. workers will fully take over,” Bessent said.

Poetic justice for all the Americans forced to train their Indian replacements before being sent to the unemployment line.

RIFed US workers before H1B visa holders? Shouldn't the H1B workers be RIFed before a US citizen?

Verizon retaining employees with H-1B visa status versus retaining US citizens. What gives? What is the US employment law statue?

Americans used to be qualified to do any job. What changed?

Ingraham on Fox: “Does that mean the H1-B visa thing will be deprioritized for the administration”

Trump: “We you have to have Talent”

Ingraham on Fox: “Sir, we have plenty of Talent here in America”

Trump: “No, you don’t, no you don’t, no you don’t”

Ingraham on Fox: “We’ll how did we do it before - for the entire history of our nation?”

(300,000 more jobs are expected to be lost before end of year, brining the total loss to 1,500,000 net jobs loss in 2025).

If you worked there prior to 2000yr, then you remember how great a company this was.
People could worked their way up the job ladder through hard work.

The company rewarded employees with good raises and bonuses.
The company motto was " Our employees are our greatest assets"

Then around 2000yr a dark cloud appeared and the company became obsessed with
saving money through any means.

Suddenly raises and bonuses were reduced to 2%. Then came the period of working
2 to 3 years with no raises or bonuses.

Departments saw their staff cut 25% to 40% sometimes 50%
To add insult to injury then came in the massive flux of H1B workers to take jobs from
U.S workers.

US Department of Labor has launched an initiative to prevent the abuse by corporations often H-1B Visa program spamming the over hiring of jobs that are displacing US Citizens. The initiative is focused on ensuring that US American Citizens are put at higher priority for skilled labor jobs in technology and healthcare.

The economy is worse than it was in 2009, and there are very few jobs available in the market. Yet, the current administration does not send H-1B workers back or prioritize American citizens in hiring decisions. President Obama handled the 2009 recession more effectively; he ensured that H-1B workers remained in India by denying visa approvals.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-reveals-over-100-investigations-into-h-1b-abuses-as-it-pledges-every-resource-to-protect-us-jobs

Duck and cover. How much did Walmart cover up? How many H1Bs were rigged or abused.

While you’re sweating it out, fearing the next round of layoffs, Mike Wirth’s raking in obscene cash $60 MILLION in 2021 (more than 50,000 Ecuadorians combined!), $29 MILLION in 2022, and a fat $32.7 MILLION in 2024 with a smug 19% raise. Meanwhile, your pay’s stuck in the mud. 😒 Chevron slashed 20% of you in February 2025 to “save costs” (boo-hoo, low oil prices), and now they’re plotting to axe 9,000 MORE jobs through 2026. But don’t worry, Wirth’s wallet is safe! 💰
Oh, and guess what? Critics say his bloated paycheck is tied to shipping YOUR IT jobs overseas with H-1B visas, spitting in the face of American workers. All while Chevron funnels millions to Trump-aligned causes. Disgusting. 🤮 Wake up, Chevron your loyalty to greed over employees is pathetic. This is for all you boot licking chevron employees that think you are untouchable….. 🤡#ShameOnChevron #you arejustanumberonaspreadsheet

The company absolutely went down hill after Michael F. Neidorff died. The executives decided to save a little money and offshore to the Philippines. Guess what Centene. Americans don't like talking to foreigners.! We get sc--wed on jobs from H1B's and the companies offshore jobs elsewhere. it cost you your Medicare business and stock price.

If you are laid off and H1B in your team is not laid off- do you have a good court case

https://www.infowars.com/posts/busted-big-companies-get-workers-from-h-1b-only-posts-on-underground-indian-job-board

I’ve resisted posting on here, but I feel the need to. I’m in a Management position, but not giving specifics out of fear. My Leader gave me a directive on Friday to prepare for the big Q1 WFR list. Here it is. We have to try to avoid cutting H1B people because we uprooted their lives to move them here, so we can’t leave them stranded. So I guess they feel it’s OK to uproot talented Americans’ lives instead of getting rid of cheap, inferior workers. Total BS!

Can Verizon afford to keep employees (not discussing VZ contractors) whom have H-1B Specialty Occupations eligibility? Forgone are the days of the minimal H-1B fees. With the new Sheriff in the Oval Office whereby raising the fee to $100k for eligible employees, paramount within Information Technology and predominantly from India.