Why Facebook is most vulnerable to proposed changes in H1B visa scheme

Among Silicon Valley’s top tech employers, Facebook 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 per cent of Facebook’s US employees in 2016 used a temporary work visa, giving the social media leader a legal classification as a H1B “dependent” company. That is a higher proportion than Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Amazon.com or Microsoft.

That could cause problems for Facebook if Trump or Congress decide to make the H1B programme more restrictive, as the president and some Republican lawmakers