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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by garbawarb on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:58PM (#50009423)
Yes, these are literally the guidelines provided by the DOL. And the government seems to want to punish companies for following the exact published guidelines.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by Neil44 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:01PM (#50009470)
Oh come on, if a company is placing job ads to comply with the letter of this law in 2026 they're 100% exploiting the process Vance outlines and would undoubtedly try to exploit whatever the replacement process was as well.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by bialpio on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:14PM (#50009680)
Nothing prevents the administration from changing the law then, last time I checked their party holds all three branches of government + SCOTUS.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by adamrezich on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:20PM (#50009772)
Are we referring to the same administration that is met with immediate resistance from an activist judiciary whenever it tries to do literally anything?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by jameshart on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:17PM (#50011534)
Passing a constitutionally valid law through congress and then having the executive branch enforce it would not meet any judicial resistance.

I suspect the courts would welcome it.

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by thfuran on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:42PM (#50010153)
Maybe they should stop trying to do illegal things.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by jimaway123 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:40PM (#50010966)
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by adamrezich on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:47PM (#50010213)
Is this thing they're doing illegal?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by bialpio on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:01PM (#50010419)
No, just selective enforcement and maybe sending a message that if you don't behave, the administration may look a bit harder into you than it normally would.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by rayiner on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:36PM (#50010899)
What is the evidence of selective enforcement?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by bialpio on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:35PM (#50013954)
I don't have evidence, I am operating under the assumption that e.g. folks behind jobs.now [1] did their homework. This is also what the OP of this whole thread claimed. [2]

[1] https://www.jobs.now/blog/unveiling-the-truth-about-h-1b-vis... "The Jobs.Now team has reviewed job postings from dozens of top companies like Meta, Block, Doordash, and Netflix which require unusual application processes like emailing or paper-mailing the application to specialized addresses, or using unbranded separate websites for collecting applications for jobs." + search for occurrence of "Apple" [2] "My understanding is that this is pretty much how everyone does it, no?"

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by goatlover on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:53PM (#50012110)
Why would you give this administration the benefit of doubt?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by watwut on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:59AM (#50017018)
No, it is meeting resistance from judges that follow the law. It is also meeting support from judges who dont care, including majority of supreme court.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by wyclif on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:10PM (#50014225)
Correction: SCOTUS is not owned by any political party. Activists can claim whatever they want about the voting record of the justices, but SCOTUS is above petty politics.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by bubblethink on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:07AM (#50017080)
The purpose of the system is what it does. At the very least 2 votes on the bench are default admin votes. It's not the activists who are claiming things. You can look up overall SCOTUS approval trendlines.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by innagadadavida on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:19PM (#50015588)
The laws were written carefully with the full support of industry lobbyists for maximal benefit. These are not accidents.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by bathtub365 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:07PM (#50009560)
Following the published guidelines is not exploiting them. If the government doesn’t like their own guidelines, they should change them.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by sjducb on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:08PM (#50009573)
Agreed, if a company wants to fill roles it advertises on linked in. Maybe the rules need updating.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by IAmBroom on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:07PM (#50009557)
Where "100% exploiting the process" means complying 100% with the standards.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by setr on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:14PM (#50009685)
Ethereum has “code is law”, but we can still have a notion of the code being exploited, because it is the intent that’s been exploited
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by QGQBGdeZREunxLe on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:11PM (#50009635)
Not really. Meta had to change advertising to allow online applications.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-labor-depart...

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by navigate8310 on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:04PM (#50026528)
It's called malicious compliance