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Posted on 10/01/2025 9:53:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) are reintroducing bipartisan legislation to reform and close loopholes in the H-1B and L-1 visa programs. The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act targets fraud and abuse in our immigration system, provides protections for American workers and visa holders and enhances transparency in the foreign worker recruitment process.
Grassley and Durbin have long partnered to improve the H-1B visa system and first introduced their bipartisan legislation in 2007. Last week, the senators sent letters to 10 major U.S. employers, including Amazon, Google and Meta, scrutinizing their heavy use of H-1B visas to secure foreign labor while simultaneously laying off thousands of American workers.
“Congress created the H-1B and L-1 visa programs as limited pathways for businesses to acquire top talent when it can’t be found at home. But over the years, many employers have used them to cut out American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor. Congress must step in again to bring integrity back to these programs and restore dignity for American and foreign workers,” Grassley said. “There’s bipartisan acknowledgement that these programs ought to be returned to their intended purpose. Our bill would make that shared goal a reality.”
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Background: The H-1B and L-1 visa programs are intended to help U.S. companies recruit highly skilled noncitizens when there is a shortage of qualified domestic workers. However, employers have abused the program to displace U.S. workers and subject foreign workers to artificially depressed wages and poor working conditions. Foreign workers in H-1B and L-1 status rely on a single employer to maintain their temporary immigration status, leaving them vulnerable to abuse. These vulnerabilities are especially exacerbated for those stuck in the green card backlog, who must maintain their temporary status while waiting for a green card to become available.
The H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act would crack down on companies that import large numbers of H-1B and L-1 workers to displace American workers and outsource American jobs. It would also provide the Department of Labor (DOL) new authorities and responsibilities to ensure that program requirements are enforced.
Specifically, the H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act would:
Implement new wage, recruitment and attestation requirements for employers seeking to hire H-1B and L-1 workers;
Require employers seeking to hire H-1B employees to post those jobs on a searchable DOL website as a resource for both U.S. workers and laid-off H-1B nonimmigrants;
Authorize DOL to place a fee on labor condition applications and use those fees to hire an additional 200 DOL employees;
Make reforms to the H-1B program, including by prioritizing H-1B visa issuance for workers with higher levels of education in STEM and amending the definition of a “specialty occupation” to require a bachelor’s degree or higher;
Make reforms to the L-1 nonimmigrant program, including new time limits and evidentiary requirements for petitions from a “new office” and mandating cooperation from the Department of State in verifying foreign affiliates; and,
Increase penalties for wage violations, including fines or debarment of employers.
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Posted on 10/1/2025, 3:51:40 AM by Jim Robinson
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It is literally easier, safer, and cheaper just to repeal the whole thing.
You won’t contribute to the Freep-A-Thon because you don’t want your bosses to see your name on the donations board. 😉😂😂
I don’t know... any bill that has Dick Durbin’s name attached to it makes me uneasy.
Thanks for providink me a platform to promote the Freep-A-Thons and shame freeploading deadbeats like yourself.
Maybe we’ll get ‘er done quicker this way, and take some stress off Jim Robinson and the rest of the Robinsons.
When politicians in DC say the words “bipartisan reform” - be very concerned
It usually means, “agree to expand the program for benefit of our mutual cronies, and throw lots of money at it.”
“Hey, marcus, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.”
Yeah, that was my first thought too.
Any bill that Dirtbin has any input into is sure to be filled with some kind of poison.
marcusmaximus, I appreciate your posts on a topic that has economically destroyed so many American families.
Thanks. Enough is enough.
No matter how pretty the frosting on the cannibal cake is.
The H1B and L1 invasion has to end.
Probably adds new loopholes worse than the ones they claim to want to close.
Which does not care about your hopes and dreams.
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