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Would a 1 year ban for H1B for Apple be that big of a problem after a "significant" layoff?

Or maybe can only apply for up to a maximum of some (10%? 15%? 25%) percentage of the last year's layoffs?

I think 1 year is a lot of time in the industry for a blanket ban. If apple wants to get out of building a car but pivot into building AI (which is what they’re doing) or if a different company wants to reduce its sales and marketing footprint while increasing its dev efforts (a lot of tech companies are doing this), then these blanket bans are unreasonable and detrimental to everyone (customers, existing employees, shareholders including people’s retirement funds), including citizens.

However, say Apple fires 600 car engineers and then files for 400 H1Bs for 400 car engineering positions after 6 months, then they need to be held accountable. Which to a certain extent already happens. USCIS will often deny H1B petitions in such cases and green card processing (PERM certification part) is usually paused at a company level after significant layoffs. As of today Facebook and other tech companies that had significant layoffs last year, are not filing PERM applications for their current employees and they won’t for at least a year after the layoffs.

so the actual workers [s]are harmed[/s]held responsible, not the companies.

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