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Tech giants such as Amazon, Oracle, Cognizant and Meta have laid off thousands of employees in the past few months.
USCIS is issuing a record number of RFEs and visa denials to H-1B workers switching to B-2.
KEY POINTS
- The rate of RFEs for B-1/B-2 change-of-status applications is roughly 10 times higher than before.
- A $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions under recent policy changes is complicating situations for workers.
- 283,772 of 406,348 approved H-1B petitions in FY25 were from Indian nationals, the group hardest hit by layoffs.
COMPANIES
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