US EditionSenators Question Tech Companies About H-1B Visas, Layoffs
Senators Grassley and Durbin demand data from major US firms on H-1B visa hires amid layoffs and rising STEM graduate unemployment, citing over 10,000 visas approved for Amazon alone.
- On Thursday , Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin sent letters to 10 companies including Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase demanding details on H-1B hiring amid layoffs.
- Amid higher unemployment for STEM graduates, Grassley and Durbin wrote that companies filed H-1B petitions for thousands of foreign workers while conducting massive layoffs in recent years.
- Company-by-Company data reveal Amazon and AWS received more than 12,000 H-1B approvals in early 2025, while Microsoft, Meta, and TCS applied for 5,189, 5,123, and 5,505 respectively, with TCS recently announcing over 12,000 layoffs.
- The senators asked how many H-1B workers are employed, what wages they receive, and whether American workers have been displaced, with each letter containing eight questions including if a company displaced any American employees with H-1B employees.
- The probe follows the Trump administration's plan to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, a JPMorgan Chase report projects this could reduce U.S. work authorizations by 5,500 monthly.
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Senators question tech companies about H-1B visas, layoffs
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed several major tech companies Wednesday about their reliance on the H-1B visa program amid recent layoffs. The senators sent letters to top executives at Amazon, Apple, Cognizant, Google, Meta and Microsoft, as well as Deloitte, JPMorgan…
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