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Facebook vulnerable to expected changes in H-1B visa program (Reuters)

February 06, 2017

Among Silicon Valley’s top tech employers, Facebook Inc. could be the most vulnerable to US President Donald Trump’s expected crackdown on guest-worker visas, according to a Reuters analysis of US Labor Department filings. More than 15% of Facebook’s US employees in 2016 used a temporary work visa, giving the social media leader a legal classification as an H-1B “dependent” company. That is a higher proportion than Alphabet Inc., Google, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp.