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In the shadowy underbelly of America’s immigration system, large corporations are gaming the rules to prioritize cheap foreign labor over hardworking U.S. citizens.
The Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) process, ostensibly designed to protect American jobs, has become a loophole-ridden farce that allows companies to convert temporary H-1B visa holders into permanent green card residents, all while pretending to search for qualified Americans.
This isn’t just bureaucratic inefficiency — it’s part of a deliberate scheme to displace U.S. workers, suppress wages, and flood the market with foreign talent beholden to their corporate sponsors.
What Is PERM, and How Does It Work?
PERM is the Department of Labor’s (DOL) certification process, a prerequisite for most employment-based green cards under the EB-2 and EB-3 categories. It’s supposed to ensure that hiring a foreign worker doesn’t harm U.S. citizens by verifying two key points: There are no able, willing, qualified, and available U.S. workers for the job, and the employment won’t adversely affect wages or working conditions of similar U.S. workers.
The process starts with an employer identifying a full-time, permanent job opportunity. They must then conduct a “good faith” recruitment effort to test the labor market.
This includes:
– Placing a job order with the State Workforce Agency (SWA) for at least 30 days.
– Advertising in two Sunday editions of a major newspaper in the area of intended employment (or a professional journal if applicable).
– Posting the job internally at the company for 10 business days.
If, after this recruitment period (which must end at least 30 days before filing), no qualified U.S. applicants emerge, the employer files Form ETA-9089 with the DOL. Approval leads to filing an I-140 petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), paving the way for the foreign worker, often already employed on an H-1B visa, to get a green card.
The certification is valid for 180 days, and the whole ordeal is meant to prioritize American workers.
But here’s the catch: This system relies on corporate honesty, which is in short supply when profits are at stake and companies have zero loyalty to the U.S. and American workers. Many H-1B holders are already in the job, but companies must “prove” no Americans want it to secure their green card.
The Sham of PERM Job Postings
Corporations aren’t stupid — they know how to check the boxes without actually hiring Americans. They post these jobs in the least visible places possible: obscure newspaper classifieds, state job boards, or even their own internal sites but made nearly impossible to find. These ads are crafted to be as unappealing as possible, often requiring applicants to snail-mail resumes or email them to addresses like “[email protected]” — signaling loud and clear that this isn’t a real opportunity. Others are massively abbreviated to further obfuscate and complicate the application process.
Take Tesla, for example.
In late 2024, the company filed over 900 prevailing wage requests for PERM positions. Their ads, like one for a Senior Software Engineer, match the exact requirements on DOL forms but are hidden in newspapers, not on Tesla’s career page.
These postings aren’t on LinkedIn, Indeed, or the company’s typical job boards because they don’t want Americans to apply. Why? If a qualified U.S. worker applies, the company must interview them and explain why they’re not hired. Too many applications trigger red flags, potentially leading to a DOL audit where the employer has to prove every rejection was legitimate. If they can’t, the PERM is denied, and the H-1B worker faces deportation at the end of their visa term (up to six years, with extensions).
It’s fraud disguised as compliance: Companies batch ads for multiple roles under one vague posting, use mismatched wages, and discriminate against citizens to keep the foreign pipeline flowing.
This isn’t isolated, it’s systemic. Immigration lawyers openly advise “batching” applications to minimize exposure, and forums buzz with H-1B holders panicking over Americans flooding their “reserved” jobs. The result? American tech grads are left unemployed while companies claim “talent shortages.”
It’s wage suppression and displacement, pure and simple, violating the Immigration and Nationality Act’s intent.
The Game-Changer: Sites Like Jobs.Now Expose the Fraud
Enter disruptors like Jobs.Now, which aggregate these hidden PERM postings and make them accessible to everyday Americans.
No more digging through newspapers — these sites pull ads from state boards and DOL data, making it easy to find the jobs companies are trying to hide from you.
The backlash has been glorious: Companies are getting swamped with applications, forcing them to cancel postings to dodge audits.
Indians are raging across the internet that they are going to be sent back home.
A recent Reddit post (shared widely on X) captures the panic: An H-1B worker at a small U.S. tech firm shared that HR received over 400 U.S. applications for their PERM job, expecting 600 total. The company balked, fearing a DOL audit that could “put the entire company at risk.”
Their solution? Cancel the posting and personally review every applicant to reject them all, admitting outright they’ll document no one is qualified to proceed with the foreign worker.
This exposure is a wrench in the corporate machine, proving the “no qualified Americans” claim is a lie. Tech layoffs are up year after year, yet PERM approvals hit 15,000 monthly, with 90% going to Indians at downsizing firms.
Time for Patriotic Action: Apply and Deny
Patriotic Americans, this is your call to arms. If you’re qualified, scour sites like Jobs.Now and apply to these PERM jobs.
Send that resume by mail or to [email protected] — and force them to consider you, even if it’s just to throw a wrench in their visa process.
Report suspicious ads to your senators and representatives, naming the company, position, and date.
If enough of us flood the system, PERMs get denied, audits ensue, and these H-1B workers get sent home when their visas expire.
Demand reform: Require labor market tests before hiring H-1Bs, not after.
End the green card giveaway that discriminates against citizens.
Our jobs, our country – time to take them back.
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