What? Trump’s Deputies Extend Work Permits for 1,000s of Foreign Workers

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Breitbart
Article date: 
14 May 2020
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
economy
H-1B
jobs
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Medium
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Fortune 500 companies are rushing a federal agency to extend work permits for thousands of H-1B visa workers as President Donald Trump and his deputies argue over visa curbs that would help Americans regain jobs lost in the coronavirus crash.
 
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook asked and got “continuing approval” extensions for 611 of its H-1B visa-workers from the staff at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
 
Each visa extension allows a foreign H-1B worker to stay another three years.
 
Tim Cook’s Apple got 647 extensions, Bill Gates’ Microsoft snagged 903 extensions, and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon got 1,245 extensions from the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Just 62 of these 3,497 requests for foreign workers were denied by USCIS, according to data displayed by the agency’s ‘H-1B Employer Data Hub.’
 
The denial rate of just 1.8 percent closed off 3,435 jobs needed by the growing number of unemployed American professionals....
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