A global IT staffing firm has been accused of putting out a hiring post that only sought to attract lawful H-1B visa holders for certain jobs, while completely ruling out American citizens or green card holders for the same. The company in question is reportedly LanceSoft.
US IT firm hiring only H-1B visa holders?
According to a report by The Washington Free Beacon, the firm’s hiring post was related to a $60-per-hour role based in Santa Clara, California, and would be focussed on “technical support.” The right fit would have to work in a 3 to 10 pm shift. As per the US news outlet’s findings, the ad was shared on Nvoids, which compiles IT job listings. It asserted that LanceSoft was deeply committed to accepting diverse clients and employees.
“We embrace people of any race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation,” read post dated November 25, as red-flagged by the Washington Free Beacon.
Ever since the report emerged online, social media users have particularly caught note of the allegations at a time when Americans are already insisting that the ‘specialty occupations’ nonimmigrant H-1B visa is snatching job opportunities from local talent.
Former West Virginia State Delegate Derrick Evans, who also describes himself as a “former Jan 6th Political Prisoner,” was one such person to have shared the Free Beacon report on his X profile.
LanceSoft is an IT staffing firm committed to "diversity, equality, & inclusivity.” They just posted a job for $60/hr based in Santa Clara, CA
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) December 5, 2025
The only issue. The job is ONLY for people with an H1B Visa. The ad explicitly states NO US CITIZENS are eligible…for a job in America. pic.twitter.com/2wtRoOIDPD
“LanceSoft is an IT staffing firm committed to ‘diversity, equality, & inclusivity.’ They just posted a job for $60/hr based in Santa Clara, CA,” he tweeted on Friday (US time). “The only issue. The job is ONLY for people with an H1B Visa. The ad explicitly states NO US CITIZENS are eligible…for a job in America.”
What did the IT hiring post say?
The hiring advertisement is said to have particularly driven attention towards a section titled “Visa requirement.” Therein, LanceSoft’s recruiter Riyaz Ansari said the “candidates must hold an active H1B visa and provide a valid passport number,” as the per the US news outlet report.
Ansari is said to have explicitly rules out US citizens and green card holders for the job, as he reportedly added, “No USC/GC for this role.”
LanceSoft’s reported hiring post is not the first of the kind to be called out amid the ongoing heated H-1B debate in the US. The nonimmigrant work visa has especially been dominated by Indians and Chinese over the years.
“A shocking number of covered entities, especially recruiters, continue to express explicit preferences for visa guest workers,” said said Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to the Free Beacon. “In the shadows of under-enforcement, this type of discrimination has festered.”
The US media outlet further indicated that within 24 hours of it reaching out to LanceSoft about the issue, the said post was removed from the Nvoids platform.
According to a 2021 US Justice Department press release, Facebook was once hit with similar allegations of “discrimination against US workers.” At the government press release announced that the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Labor had come up with separate settlement agreements with Facebook over it use of the permanent labour certification program (PERM).
“The Justice Department’s settlement resolves its claims that Facebook routinely refused to recruit, consider or hire U.S. workers, a group that includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, asylees, refugees and lawful permanent residents, for positions it had reserved for temporary visa holders in connection with the PERM process,” the press release stated.
“Additionally, the Labor Department’s settlement resolves issues it separately identified through audit examinations of Facebook’s recruitment activities related to its PERM applications filed with the Employment and Training Administration’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC).”
This came after the Justice Department’s December 202 lawsuit against the company. The formal filing accused the Mark Zuckerberg-led firm of reserving “jobs for temporary visa holders through the PERM process” from at least January 1, 2018, until at least September 18, 2019.
As part of the settlement, Facebook was ordered to pay a civil penalty of $4.75 million to the United States, $9.5 million to eligible victims of the alleged scheme, and train its employees on the anti-discrimination requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Moreover, “Facebook will be required to conduct more expansive advertising and recruitment for its job opportunities for all PERM positions, accept electronic resumes or applications from all U.S. workers who apply, and take other steps to ensure that its recruitment for PERM positions closely matches its standard recruitment practices,” stated the press release.
