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Amid mass layoffs being announced by several companies, the Donald Trump administration came up with a new executive order that directly links layoffs with H-1B hiring.
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H-1B is a visa program that allows companies to hire skilled workers from foreign countries.
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companies → allow → countries
It is a common allegation that companies fire their workforce while continuing to hire for H-1B as that would cost them much less.
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that → fire → less
In the new executive order, the government is now telling the agencies to look at an H-1B sponsoring company's layoff record when deciding whether to approve or process H-1B-related applications.
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What changes?
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Previously, an employer's layoffs were not generally a broad standalone factor considered in every H-1B case.
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There are already anti-displacement rules for certain H-1B-dependent employers and willful violators, but those rules are narrower.
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The new order directs DOL, DHS and State Department to consider whether an H-1B sponsoring employer recently laid off US workers; plans to lay off US workers; particularly where those workers are "similarly situated" to the H-1B position being sought.
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What does "similarly situated" mean?
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It essentially means US workers whose jobs are sufficiently comparable to the H-1B position — considering things such as the job duties, qualifications, experience and location.
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H-1B visa program is for skilled professionals but if equally skilled Americans are fired to make space for H-1B workers, this becomes a problem now.
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However, the new order does not yet spell out exactly how agencies will define "similarly situated" for this broader review.
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Implementation guidance is still expected.
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Does a company having layoffs automatically mean the H-1B will be denied?
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The order does not say that.
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It says the agencies should consider recent or planned layoffs that negatively affect similarly situated US workers.
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It does not say that any layoff automatically makes an employer ineligible to sponsor H-1B workers.
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The precise implementation and evidentiary standards remain to be established.
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For example, if a company lays off marketing employees but is sponsoring H-1B software engineers for positions that haven't been eliminated, the relevance of those layoffs would be different from a situation where it lays off software engineers and simultaneously seeks H-1B workers for comparable engineering positions.
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Why this matters for Indian H-1B workers
A majority of the H-1B workers every year come from India.
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The new executive order will not impact individual H-1B visa workers.
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The scrutiny will be on the companies hiring them.
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The Trump administration cited figures that 800,000 to 1.3 million American employees have been fired in the tech sector from 2022 through 2026.
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But the tech companies are requesting for hundreds of thousands of H-1B workers.
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"One foreign country’s foreign minister even publicly admitted that H-1B 'has become the outsourcing visa'," the order said, referring to a former Indian minister.
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