{"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":"

DOL’s own regulations limit review of a Labor Condition Application to checking for missing paperwork and “obvious inaccuracies” \u2014 not whether the employer’s attestation is actually true (20 CFR \u00a7655.740(a)(1)). GAO told Congress as much in 2011: the review is “cursory and limited by law,” and a DHS study found 21% of examined H-1B petitions involved fraud or technical violations. Eleven years of DOL’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 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

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DOL’s own regulations limit review of a Labor Condition Application to checking for missing paperwork and “obvious inaccuracies” \u2014 not whether the employer’s attestation is actually true (20 CFR \u00a7655.740(a)(1)). GAO told Congress as much in 2011: the review is “cursory and limited by law,” and a DHS study found 21% of examined H-1B petitions … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dol","category-h-1b"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t