#h1b

The disproportionate presence of Indian leaders hiring and promoting mostly Indian H1-B candidates speaking their language into SVP and other VP roles in Tampa raises concerns about favoritism and closed networks. When leadership pipelines lack balance - opportunities for other equally qualified professionals are very limited.

https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/h1b-and-h-4-visa-holders-face-prudential-visa-revocation-what-does-it-mean-and-will-it-affect-their-stay-in-the-us-11765718081536.html

https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-visas-banned-republican-proposal-11226290

https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-visas-banned-republican-proposal-11226290

President Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, had a one-on-one interview this week with The Daily Signal, a media outlet founded by The Heritage Foundation, the influential conservative think tank.

Chavez-DeRemer said her agency is currently working on almost 200 investigations, including the efforts of “Project Firewall,” an initiative that specifically monitors companies that are scamming and abusing the H-1B vias program.

Chavez-DeRemer asserts that before U.S. companies apply for the H-1B visa program, “you want to advertise to the American worker first, you want to make sure you can’t find an American worker first, and then apply for the H-1B program.”

She added, “The goal is to make sure that we have a trained workforce. So if these companies are going to use the program, we want to make sure that they’re also training American workers, so we can offer it to them first.”

U.S. Tech Workers, a nonprofit group formed by the Institute for Sound Public Policy to pressure the federal government for visa program reform and ensure companies hire U.S. tech workers first before recruiting abroad, responded to the Secretary’s comments.

U.S. Tech Workers characterizes as literal Chavez-DeRemer’s description of her ideal situation — companies advertising to American workers first — and wrote to clarify the limits of the actual legal responsibilities of H-1B employers: “Alarming to see @SecretaryLCD get basic H-1B facts wrong. She claims employers must first advertise jobs to Americans first-which is FALSE. There's no labor market test required, just self-attestation. How can you reform a program to protect Americans if you don't understand it?”

U.S. Tech Workers added: “It also appears that Project Firewall is merely targeting low-hanging IT bodyshops that once published ‘hiring H-1B only’ on job ads, rather than going after the Big Tech behemoths engaged in mass layoffs while simultaneously sponsoring visas. No structural rule changes are being proposed, such as closing the outsourcing loophole or raising the prevailing wage requirements. Disappointing @USDOL.”

The U.S. Tech Workers is not without influence or connections. The founder of the group, Kevin Lynn, met with President Trump at the White House in August 2020, when the President signed an executive order to, according to Trump, “finalize H1-B regulations so that no American worker is replaced ever again. H1-Bs, which are a scam should be used for top, highly paid talent to create American jobs, not as inexpensive labor program to destroy American jobs.”

I still have no clue why Dell is sponsoring and renewing H1b Visas while there is unprecedented unemployment in the tech sector right now. They should stop renewing any H1b Visas.

The technology departments at Fiserv are a total mess. They are packed with Indian folks grabbing all the high-level spots like CIOs/SVPs, and then those guys keep hiring more “H1B” visa holders from India for their teams instead of Americans. They are bending or breaking immigration rules to hang onto their preferred H1Bs for leadership jobs that any American could easily do. This goes against everything Trump’s pushing to make America great again. They will also file a green card for each of them and will keep requesting for extensions, misusing the h1b clause. USCIS should soon audit Fiserv workforce to make sure it is not letting the core payments processor of America misuse any laws.

Oracle has declared itself as infra company. I see large number of people are just copy pasting from llm’s. Do we still need this special talents for copy pasting from llm’s ? Rather save local job market.
I don’t blame h1b candidates but the job market has shifted and there is no special need for you anymore. We locals have to survive and not in the cost of paying less for you and your management playing politics.

When someone submits a resume today, they have the abysmally low 0.4% chance of actually getting the job, per Business Insider.

Thanks to Trump for letting h1b visa workers to compete against the American workers.

"This team should not exist."

"I appreciate everything you do, every day."

While showing a deck that is clearly a roadmap for getting rid of the entire group, and other comments that made it clear they intend to keep nobody from that group. It's obvious the reason they're bringing so many H1-B into the bank is that they have zero loyalty to anyone other than their paycheck.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/the-500-years-old-temple-where-techies-go-to-fulfil-their-american-dream-no-puja-just-personal-connection-with-deity/amp_articleshow/124119110.cms

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/jd-vance-calls-out-big-tech-firing-americans-while-hiring-cheap-foreign-h-1b-visa-replacements

This is very odd in oregon. What is happening?

LTIMindtree, one of India’s leading IT and digital services firms, will stop filing new H-1B visa applications going forward, according to a report by Moneycontrol.

The company’s CEO, Venugopal Lambu (Venu), said the organisation will now focus on hiring more local talent in overseas markets.

Lambu’s announcement comes at a time when the United States is witnessing intense debate over the H-1B “specialty occupation” visa category.

The Trump administration also introduced a blanket fee of 100,000 dollars for new H-1B filings through a proclamation issued in September.

For years, MAGA-aligned politicians and their supporters have argued that major tech companies rely too heavily on foreign workers instead of hiring Americans. Many critics have even labelled the current visa system a “fraud” or “scam.”

Lambu clarified that LTIMindtree’s new policy applies only to fresh petitions under the upcoming H-1B lottery cycle.

Renewals for existing employees will continue unchanged, mirroring the way Trump’s new 100,000 dollar fee applies only to new applications. This strongly indicates that the steep fee played a major role in the company’s decision.

He added that LTIMindtree may reconsider its stance if U.S. regulations change in the future.

How Many H-1B Employees Does LTIMindtree Have?

Lambu told Moneycontrol that the company currently employs around 4,000 H-1B workers in the U.S., out of a global workforce of more than 86,000.

He noted that LTIMindtree has already reduced its dependency on the visa category and built systems to support onsite hiring.

Looking ahead, Lambu stressed the importance of hiring locally to control costs and improve profitability.

He pointed out that the company generated 64 million dollars in additional revenue in the first half of FY26, even as its net headcount decreased.

Outlining LTIMindtree’s long-term vision, Lambu said the company aims to grow revenue without proportionally increasing staff numbers.

“If we are growing 2X over the next five years, the headcount should grow only about 1.2X to 1.3X,” he told Moneycontrol.

If you see H1B job postings on internal website and paper postings in the office, report them to the government. It’s discrimination against American. They fire American hire Indians.

Ohhhhhh .You’ve done it again.

former Rep. Dave Brat alleges large-scale H-1B visa fraud linked to India.
Claims Chennai consulate issued 220,000 visas, far above the 85,000 cap.
Former U.S. diplomat reported forged documents, political pressure at same consulate...........................................................

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Capital One’s Indian Mafia Exposed: Massive H-1B Kickback Scheme Displaces American Workers
Capital One’s Indian Mafia Exposed: Massive H-1B Kickback Scheme Displaces American Workers https://thevisafiles.substack.com/p/capital-one

Former US Representative Dave Brat claims 'industrial-scale fraud' in H-1B system, alleging that Chennai district got 220,000 visas while India cap is 85,000

The Federal
26 Nov 2025 5:25 AM

Former US Representative and economist Dr Dave Brat has alleged widespread fraud within the H-1B visa system, claiming in a podcast that India’s Chennai district (Tamil Nadu) secured more than twice the total number of visas legally permitted nationwide.

Speaking on the podcast, Brat said the H-1B system had been "captured by industrial-scale fraud", asserting that visa allocations from India were surpassing the statutory limits.

https://thefederal.com/category/news/us-economist-flags-h1b-fraud-india-chennai-220000-visas-217952

Justice is coming back to US workers. But the dam age maybe too bad to recover from unless they start reversing statuses.

https://www.newsweek.com/h-1b-visa-update-department-labor-americans-11104262

https://www.newsweek.com/h-1b-visa-update-department-labor-americans-11104262

What’s with job postings they put up real quick then take down a day later and say the job is canceled?

Trying to sneak an H1-B past everyone?

Immigration lawyer Rahul Reddy warns H-1B workers that their biggest mistake is assuming good performance will protect them from layoffs. He urges them to prepare a Plan B that could include moving to another employer, changing status, starting a business, or enrolling in studies to maintain lawful presence if they lose their job. The piece frames proactive immigration planning as essential in a volatile tech job market with frequent layoffs

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/indian-origin-immigration-lawyer-shares-plan-b-for-h-1b-holders-facing-layoffs-biggest-mistake-is-assuming-/articleshow/125548154.cms

Washington loves to pretend that the H-1B visa is a pipeline of brilliance — a system designed to bring the world’s top talent to America. That fiction survives only because no one in power is willing to say the obvious: the H-1B program isn’t about skill, innovation, or shortages. It’s about cheap, compliant labor.

There is no real skills filter or university accreditation in the H-1B program. Outside of fashion models, the law requires nothing more than a bachelor’s degree. An entire cottage industry now exists to sell “qualifications” to foreign nationals seeking visas.

The law requires nothing more than a bachelor’s degree, and even that can be — and often is — purchased from diploma mills that exist solely to manufacture “credentials” for visa petitions. USCIS doesn’t track where degrees come from, doesn’t verify quality, authenticity , and doesn’t even know how many H-1B approvals rest on fraudulent foundations or real credentialed university . Ignorance isn’t an accident. It’s policy.

If this were a talent program, visas wouldn’t be handed out by lottery. The very existence of a random drawing exposes the truth: employers don’t care who they get, so long as they get someone cheaper.
Why other countries allow their best of the best sent to America if they can help their country compete and succeed in global technology at their home country.

H-1B was never built to solve shortages. It was built to create a new class of workers who can’t negotiate, can’t easily switch jobs, and have every incentive to stay silent. The winners are the corporations that profit from the loopholes , The politicians who receive money from corporations. Losers are American workers with collage degree with a lot of debt— and the integrity of our labor law and immigration system.

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.