Comment by kamaal
2 years ago
You don't even have to be a $1T company. Your body shops and outsourcing firm managers buy Green cards for their pets at office all the time.
Of all the things, Visas/GCs are the least of the issues here. Think of it like a joining bonus for their immigrant employees.
As someone actually on a green card, working at one large tech company and previously at another where I got the card (both in the same range of importance as Microsoft), and having seen various colleagues go through various issues: no, it really does not work that way. For instance, my card was delayed for something like 2 years, because anything immigration related was extremely slow in 2002...
The main benefit you get is good quality lawyers who make sure you do the process the right way.
Everyone at Meta in the queue for PERM status was put on pause in the system for about 4 years because President Trump was angry with Zuckerberg.