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Re:90% of laid-off H1-B visa holders were able to find new work by MontyCarloHall on Friday May 26, 2023 @02:32PM (#36087964)
Straight from the Department of Labor's site [0]:

> The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.

The ostensible intent of the H-1B program and its actual legal stipulations are two totally separate things.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

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Re:90% of laid-off H1-B visa holders were able to find new work by returningfory2 on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:56PM (#36088828)
To me this seems to be an upside down view of US immigration law (and US law in general). The INA is the supreme immigration law of the land. DOL regulations and documents are downstream and subordinate to the INA. The true “intent” of the H1B program is whatever is in the INA.
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