#h1b

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/

Any layoffs ?
People sending emails about their last day at fidelity .
Also seeing other folks in other companies with long tenure doing the same. Saw atleast 2 of them this morning on linkedin.
Also lot of hiring in India as H1B fees by trump.

Let's turn back the clock a bit. Around ten years ago Dell laid off a lot of long time employees. Employees who had worked for the company for 15 years or more. As you would expect after 15 years, these were very well paid employees across all skill workers.

Dell was still a growing company and could have offered other roles to these employees. However Dell let them go. Needing a wealth of new employees Dell turned to India and the new hires received the kind of lower wages that new employee (performing the same job) would get as opposed to a long time employee.

Now here we are in 2025. Those H1-B hires are now in their tenth year. Through annual raises they are now a bigger hit to OPEX. Now comes Trump's new H1-B policy. So now Dell gets to layoff veteran and costly H1-B and blame it on the new H1-B policy. But now they simply run the same gambit of laying of veteran employees for new lower paid replacement and look innocent free.

It's like in that movie The Sting. Never let your mark know they were stung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Ecodxn5m4

Major tech companies including Meta, Google, Salesforce, Amazon, and Tesla continue to announce large-scale layoffs, often attributing them to advances in artificial intelligence. At the same time, firms are quietly expanding through H-1B visa hiring and outsourcing to countries like India, where more than 1.6 million people now work in global capacity centers.

Data shows Salesforce, for example, cut nearly 4,000 employees while bringing in roughly the same number of visa workers over the past three years. Tesla faces lawsuits alleging the replacement of thousands of American workers with cheaper foreign labor. Amazon, despite claims of automation, secured more than 12,000 visas in 2025 alone.

Executives benefit from this strategy: every announcement of “AI layoffs” drives stock prices higher and boosts their compensation. Policies such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act further incentivize offshoring by lowering tax rates on overseas profits.

While AI is genuinely replacing some jobs—particularly in content moderation, customer service, and IT support—corporations are also using the technology as a convenient narrative to mask cost-cutting and labor exploitation. Unemployment among U.S. computer engineering graduates has tripled in a year, and many new graduates are struggling to secure entry-level roles that have been systematically reduced.

The long-term risk mirrors the manufacturing exodus to China in the 1980s and 1990s: a hollowing out of U.S. jobs while overseas economies flourish.

With new 100k fee, Dell will not apply most H1B visa and offer applicants same job but oversea office. Or if necessary, Dell can hire minimum residence in US. Either way , it is a huge cost savings.

Asking why Americans are being laidoff while hiring h1bs at the same time

It’s a 100k one time company fee for new H1Bs. This won’t affect existing H1BS. Theres like over 100 thousand of them already in the country. And they can just renew it. 100k one time fee is NOTHING for a company like Fiserv. They’ll probably just continue their same song and dance and continue to exploit America and the American people.

Both dems and reps are talking about reforming the visas.

Everyone knows it is hot garbage.

The end is nigh.

At 100k per things are going to change. New corporate phrase going around. “Pick an executive and replace them with an H1B.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/h1b-visa-grassley-durbin-letter-tech-firms-8fe931e9

Project Firewall is an enforcement initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on September 19, 2025, aimed at curbing abuse in the H-1B visa program. It focuses on investigating employers suspected of exploiting H-1B visas to displace American workers with lower-wage foreign labor, particularly in high-skilled STEM fields. The project prioritizes “America first” hiring by ensuring compliance with visa rules and rooting out fraud.
Key Aspects:
• Leadership and Scope: Led by the DOL’s Office of Immigration Policy, Employment and Training Administration, and Wage and Hour Division, with collaboration from the Department of Justice, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The Secretary of Labor can personally certify investigations for high-priority cases.
• Enforcement Measures: Investigations can start via secretary certification or standard channels, targeting violations like wage suppression, improper job displacement, and visa misuse. It aligns with a recent executive order by President Donald Trump requiring a $100,000 fee for H-1B petitions.
• Goals and Impact: As stated by Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, it ensures “highly skilled jobs go to Americans first” by ending abuses that undercut U.S. workers. Critics, however, warn of potential overreach affecting small businesses and innovation.
This initiative reflects the Trump administration’s broader immigration and labor priorities. For unrelated uses of “project firewall” (e.g., open-source software firewalls), the term typically refers to custom network security implementations, but the 2025 launch dominates current references.

The whole world is talking about H1B chaos caused by 'you know who' and here we are , pin drop silence.. is that an indication that Nike have laid off so many of the H1B that there is no need of any discussion about it.. anymore!!!

Don't know, how many of us here are IT, but when I've heard about new TRUMP fee for indian workers - I started liking my president.
Currently the ratio if indian:non-indian in our IT is 9:1, and the major drawback of that (excepr the reverse discrimination) is knowledge leaking abroad and lower earnings level in the US.
Time and time again I saw indians cominfg in for a year or two, being traned and then replaced by their new "friends" - leading to constant training and losses.
What do you think?

This amuses me. Meanwhile they have destroyed the careers of millions of people. But that’s ok.

Trump needs to put a tariff on offshoring.

Hmmm.... if saving money is the reason to hire these folks, will IBM cough up a hundred grand? Doubtful, I think. Your thoughts?

let’s see how this plays out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMfTZhp_vK4

How will the new 100 k fee for additional H1B visas impact Oxy?

Department of labor now investigating visa abuses.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/us-launches-project-firewall-to-protect-american-workers-in-h-1b-visa-program/ar-AA1MWreB

Here are the reasons why many people are upset with a certain group:

1.  One group takes up more than 70% of the entire H-1B program.
2.  As we all know, some consulting companies abuse the H-1B system because one person can apply multiple times, even if they don’t live in this country.
3.  Cultural issues: Some people only hire others from their own community and don’t really assimilate well.
4.  Quality concerns: Many products from this group are considered low quality.
5.  When the majority of people are having issues with one group, then something must be wrong.
6.  Please reflect on yourselves first—why are so many people from different countries(Canada, Australia, the US, New zealand, even Japan)having the same problems with you?

I can’t wait to see how much MORE Money AT&T will Lose for each H1B Visa replacing American workers. These Executives are highly skilled at Losing Money. 💸

With $100K per H-1B visa, all workers from India, Mexico, and Asia will return to their home country for good. Is this a good thing or is it a bad thing?