h1b news

America has enjoyed the greatest free lunch in history: Vivek Wadhwa reacts to Green Card crackdown on 8 IT companies, says they aren’t the visa abusers

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com3 hours ago06 mins

Green Card crackdown on major IT giants including Microsoft shakes Silicon Valley. Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa strongly reacted to the Donald Trump administration’s suspension PERM program for eight IT giants, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capegemini and said that these companies are not the visa abusers. The visa abusers are…

‘Unfortunately, the H-1B program has become…’: Republican lawmaker from Georgia writes to Trump administration, says his own district is a visa abuse hotspot

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com1 day ago04 mins

Rep Rich McCormick says his district is a suspected H-1B hotspot. Rep Rich McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, has written to the Trump administration that his district, Georgia’s 7th Congressional district, has become a suspected hotspot of H-1B visa fraud and that the administration should investigate. He said he would act as an interlocutor to…

Tamil H-1B man with disability reaches out to Indian-origin Democrat leader after being fired; Suhas Subramanyam shuts trolls, says ‘Yes I help everyone’

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com2 weeks ago05 mins

Indian-origin Democrat Rep. Suhas Subramanyam directly addressed the viral claims against him doing the rounds on social media that he helped Tamil people who are not even in his district. An anti-H-1 B activist Nick Plumb shared some screenshots that he said he got from a private Tamil community, showing that a man who had…

JD Vance’s H-1B warning to corporate America: We are not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com2 weeks ago03 mins

JD Vance’s new H-1B warning to corporate America. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on White House’s recent action against H-1B visa abuse and put out a message to corporate America: “We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.” The message was linked to…

Wage mismatch: Why did USCIS revoke an H-1B petition in Florida? Here’s what happened

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com3 weeks ago04 mins

Wage mismatch and an H-1B petition revoked in Florida. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they revoked an H-1B petition in Florida because of an issue over wage mismatch. While it was an individual case, it serves as a warning against such practices, as the agency reminded the petitioners that these are not…

H-1B is officially dead, nobody will take the risk: Indian career coach says DHS proposal language on ending 60-day grace period is brutal

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com4 weeks ago05 mins

Indian career coach says H-1B will be officially dead if the 60-day grace period is eliminated. Indian career coach in the US, Anushk Sharma, reacted to the DHS proposal to end the 60-day grace period for several visa categories, including H-1Bs, and said that if this proposal becomes a rule, the H-1B visa program is…

Viral social media post claims H-1B families returning to India abandoning their houses, cars

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com4 weeks ago05 mins

Viral post claims H-1Bs are abandoning their houses and cars and leaving the US. Relocating from the US to India takes a lot of planning and months of preparation, wrapping up years spent in the country. But according to social media posts, instead of selling houses or cars, H-1B families who recently lost jobs and…

Truth behind claim that Trump’s H-1B fee plan could push cost above $200,000: Here’s the calculation

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com1 month ago05 mins

H-1B fee could cross $200k if Trump’s earlier $100K fee is allowed and the new fee also becomes a rule and if both fees are applicable to the situation of a candidate. The cost of hiring a foreign skilled worker through the H-1B visa programme could cross $200,000 under a new Trump administration proposal, USA…

H-1B petitions denied, visas revoked: USCIS says a ‘major IT consulting’ company in Vermont was doing this fraud

wizbuddypointm@gmail.com1 month ago04 mins

USCIS says a major IT consulting firm was paying H-1B workers lower salaries. As the Donald Trump administration intensified its crackdown on H-1B visa fraud, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services cited a specific case of a major IT consulting company in Vermont that was giving lower salaries to H-1Bs. The agency said that it…

Indian H-1Bs hiring other Indians, giving them best assignments, running grocery stores: American CEO claims a Fortune 500 company VP told him this