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I understand pausing completely ; can you explain how stopping the transfer of existing temporary workers will help?

Lots of people laid off by Block are on H1B Visas. With transfer they have 60 days to find new role. If they could not find new job in 60 days, they "fake" transfer to "bodyshop" company while they are looking for real work so status does not lapse.

With transfer you have 4k people looking and eligible for new role. With no H1B transfer, less people are looking for work and citizens and green card holders have higher chance to land roles in a few companies still hiring.

Even if you consider 50% of them are H1Bs, and out of them even majority don’t find jobs in 60 days (it’s actually more since they are keeping them on payroll for 5 months) that’s still a low number. Couple with the fact that not all would like to join body shops. I understand your frustration but I don’t think stopping H1B transfers is the solution.

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