Green Cards reflect cases started years ago: Immigration attorney raises 5 points on Trump administration's PERM ban

Immigration attorney raises 5 points on Trump admin's Green Card restriction for eight tech majors. Suspending the Green Card process of eight tech companies and accusing them of depriving American workers are two different things that have been put together, experts felt after Vice President JD Vance's announcement. Vance cited 6,000 American layoffs and compared it with 6,300 H-1B approvals and 3,000 Green Cards. But do they show that foreign workers replaced the Americans who lost their jobs? Immigration attorney Gnanamookan Senthurjothi asked as he raised 5 points on the correlation.H-1B is a non-immigrant work visa and PERM is a step in the Green Card process that gives permanent residency to the applicants. H-1Bs often take the employment-based Green Card route to become permanent residents of the US. But they are not directly linked without context.H-1B approvals do not equal new hiresSenthurjothi said H-1B approvals do not always mean new hires -- there are extensions or change of status for existing employees. "Microsoft has said that about 80% of its H-1B filings last fiscal year were extensions or changes of status for existing employees. An extension is not a new hire, ...