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The apical Republican and Democrat connected the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee connected Monday (September 29, 2025) reintroduced authorities to tighten rules connected the H-1B and L-1 idiosyncratic visa programmes, targeting what they called loopholes and maltreatment by large employers.
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, and Democratic ranking subordinate Dick Durbin of Illinois said the Bill tightens rules by raising wage and hiring standards, mandating nationalist occupation postings, and narrowing visa eligibility, among others.
The H-1B visa programme, wide utilized by the U.S. exertion assemblage to prosecute skilled workers from India and China, has been nether the spotlight aft the Donald Trump medication earlier this period imposed a $100,000 fee connected caller applications.
Unlike the H-1B programnme for skilled overseas hires, the L-1 visa allows multinational companies to transportation existing employees from overseas offices to the U.S.
The 2 senators, who archetypal introduced akin authorities successful 2007, said they sent letters past week to 10 large U.S. employers including Amazon.com, Alphabet's Google and Meta Platforms scrutinising their reliance connected H-1B visas portion laying disconnected staff.
The companies did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
"Congress created the H-1B and L-1 visa programmes arsenic constricted pathways for businesses to get apical endowment erstwhile it can't beryllium recovered astatine home. But implicit the years, galore employers person utilized them to chopped retired American workers successful favour of inexpensive overseas labor," Mr. Grassley said successful a statement.
U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, are among the archetypal cosponsors of the legislation.
