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Posted on 04/03/2026 3:33:13 PM PDT by escapefromboston
H-1B visa filings at major tech companies fell sharply late last year, according to federal data, as layoffs mount and new visa restrictions take hold.
The decline comes as changes to the work visa program since September have made the process costlier and placed applicants under tighter scrutiny, and as tech goliaths like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have undergone successive rounds of job cuts.
Department of Labor data shows that some employers filed markedly fewer H-1B visa applications in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 than they did a year earlier. On the federal calendar, Q1 runs from October through December.
Amazon had the highest number of certified applications and saw a steep decline, dropping from 4,647 in Q1 2025 to 3,057 in Q1 2026. Certified H-1B and similar visa applications are those that the Labor Department has reviewed to ensure that a prospective immigrant worker will be paid similarly to other workers in similar roles, and won't adversely affect employment for those workers.
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Total remigration, White nations for White people.
We are not there yet, unfortunately..
The.number should be zero.
I would have ended it and let the people here run out of their time (3 to 6 years), Gives businesses enough time to replace their slaves with American workers without too much disruption.
The fee likely won’t be reversed as any president doing so would run a grave risk of being a one termer.
A very good beginning. But only a beginning.
WOW! Slap a $100K fee on H1Bs and suddenly companies “need” far fewer of them. Whodda thunk it?
They might do it but they definitely won’t say it when running for office.
I wonder where “Geoff Weiss , Melia Russell , Andy Kiersz , and Alex Nicoll” got their data from. There is like a year and a half lag on the reporting of this data. Because these companies practically run these federal agencies. Do they provide a link to this data? There is a LOT of lying going on about this stuff. You cant trust the data even if it is posted on an official website. Big tech lies a lot.
META is behind all these Age Verification bills for Operating Systems etc etc
“Total remigration, White nations for White people.”
Yes
That is the glaringly obvious reason to end it. These companies now showing it’s 100% a cheap labor loophole.
Oracle alone filing for more is the exception that proves the rule. As a whole H1B applications are way down.
Hey its not just cheap labor
its also being able to treat foreign workers like garbage since they can’t leave the company without losing their visa !
what they don’t mention is that the layoffs at these large organizations have been monumental.
the hirings have all been the h1bs.
The numbers keep going up not down and the current ones keep renewing
I fully understand a lot of posters here probably haven’t been in the job market for years but a whole hell of a lot of people are having a hard time and this isn’t helping
No, total forced remigration.
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