alt Hacker NewsYes - When Microsoft requests 14,000 H-1Bs after laying off 9,000 American workers, it's above and beyond the 85k cap.
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intermerda • last Friday at 6:07 PM
All the Microsoft layoffs were US citizens? Do you have a source for this?
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trhway • last Friday at 6:15 PM
i think you're mistaken. The H1B cap is 65K. Cap-exempts are capped at 20K. Thus total cap is 85K. No above and beyond of that number.
Speaking about original post US tech industry is 16M people. So 600K+ of H1Bs, suppose they all in tech, is 4%. Blip on a radar.
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No, it's not. The limit of new is universally capped at 85k. They can request as many applications as they want. The lottery still only picks a total of 85k