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by rguzman 2370 days ago
this is one of my favorite (bc it is pretty harmless) cases of regulations failing spectacularly: the reason the companies do this is that it is a legal requirement for H1B visas. the idea, IIUC, is that before giving the job to an immigrant, the company should do a proper search to fill the position with an american candidate. what happens instead is that the companies make no additional effort to find american candidates after they've decided to sponsor the H1B (largely because that's just not how the hiring pipelines work), and instead everyone wastes time and effort "complying" with the requirements that law has for a proper search.
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It isn't for H1B, it's for green cards.