US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by jimaway123 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:40PM (#50010966)

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article317504545.html

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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?"

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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