Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants

Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo... by giobox on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:10PM (#28938565)

It’s almost entirely about PERM interviews conducted by Facebook for their H-1B holders looking to adjust status, yes. My main issue is with your earlier statement that this has nothing to do with the H-1B, when it almost exclusively concerns H-1B visa holders at Facebook in practice.

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Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo... by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:22PM (#28938657)

It would equivalently apply to petitions for immigrant visas where applicants would be outside the U.S. and apply via consular processing. Or for employees on intracompany transferee L-1 visas.

The PERM process is specifically a prerequisite to an I-140 petition for immigrant visa. Anything assertion that Facebook was "defrauding the H-1B program" is completely spurious.

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Re:Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favo... by giobox on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:16PM (#28939077)

While you are of course entitled to your view, I would respectfully disagree. In practice the _vast_ majority of I-140s filed by Facebook are for their H-1B holders. To pretend their PERM recruitment process and their use of the H-1B is somehow totally unlinked is disingenuous at best.

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