{"id":664,"date":"2026-08-13T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:49:43","slug":"how-congress-built-a-rubber-stamp-inside-the-law-that-makes-h-1b-denials-nearly-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/how-congress-built-a-rubber-stamp-inside-the-law-that-makes-h-1b-denials-nearly-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"How Congress Built a Rubber Stamp: Inside the Law That Makes H-1B Denials Nearly Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOL&#8217;s own regulations limit review of a Labor Condition Application to checking for missing paperwork and &#8220;obvious inaccuracies&#8221; \u2014 not whether the employer&#8217;s attestation is actually true (20 CFR \u00a7655.740(a)(1)). GAO told Congress as much in 2011: the review is &#8220;cursory and limited by law,&#8221; and a DHS study found 21% of examined H-1B petitions involved fraud or technical violations. Eleven years of DOL&#8217;s own LCA and PERM disclosure data show what that produces \u2014 a 0.90% denial rate on 7.9 million H-1B filings since 2015, versus 4.72% for PERM, the sibling program that actually requires documented recruitment. This is a follow-up to our <a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/dol_flag_system_history.php\">FLAG contract-history report<\/a>: not who built the system that processes these applications, but what the law actually requires it to enforce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/lca_rubber_stamp_by_design.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/lca_rubber_stamp_by_design.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOL&#8217;s own regulations limit review of a Labor Condition Application to checking for missing paperwork and &#8220;obvious inaccuracies&#8221; \u2014 not whether the employer&#8217;s attestation is actually true (20 CFR \u00a7655.740(a)(1)). GAO told Congress as much in 2011: the review is &#8220;cursory and limited by law,&#8221; and a DHS study found 21% of examined H-1B petitions &#8230; <a title=\"How Congress Built a Rubber Stamp: Inside the Law That Makes H-1B Denials Nearly Impossible\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/how-congress-built-a-rubber-stamp-inside-the-law-that-makes-h-1b-denials-nearly-impossible\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Congress Built a Rubber Stamp: Inside the Law That Makes H-1B Denials Nearly Impossible\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dol","category-h-1b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}