Oracle and Amazon file thousands of H-1B visas requests amid layoffs
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Oracle laid off thousands of employees via email on Tuesday, informing them that their roles were being eliminated as part of a broader organizational change. The termination notice stated: “After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we have made the decision to eliminate your role as part of a broader organizational change.”

Affected workers were offered a severance package subject to the plan’s terms. At the same time, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data show Oracle filed roughly 3,126 H-1B petitions for foreign workers in specialty occupations during fiscal years 2025 and 2026, including 436 petitions this year alone.

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