[eszed]

For an H1b part of the requirement is that the company has not found any citizens who will take the job - only if they can show that will the visa be issued to their prospective overseas candidate. So, they make the interviews with citizens as unpleasant as possible, so that none of them will take the job. It's a massive waste of everyone's time.

[riku_iki]

I think it is for Green Card application, not h1b, and they usually posted job postings in some newspapers, so no one apply.

[LorenPechtel]

Green Card has no job involved. It's the result of meeting certain conditions.

I've been through the process (married a foreigner), never did they ask anything but biographical details for her and they only cared about my income, not where it came from. (For the form promising that she would not become a public charge.) The whole focus was on whether we really were a couple or it was just a scam to get her a green card.

[riku_iki]

They have employment based green cards (not through marriage), it requires labor certifications with advertisement and checking local candidates: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/programs/perm...

[LorenPechtel]

You get the green card *after* a certain amount of time working. The years in the job is the qualification to apply.

[riku_iki]

this is not true. I think green card application can be submitted and approved even before work started (though this probably very rarely happens), employer just need to go through certification process(prove that job requires education and skills) and prove that there is no local competition for the job.

[sgerenser]

Apple got in trouble for this recently: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/apple-discrimina...