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Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges
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The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address.
Key facts
- Apple settled similar allegations with the DoJ in 2023, agreeing to pay a mere $25 million for similarly discriminating against US workers in favor of PERM applicants
- Cloudera, which was taken private in 2021, had approximately 3,200 employees as of August 2025, according to Pitchbook data
- That separate hiring process is a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the DoJ, and the fact it allegedly went on for nearly a year between 2024 and 2025 suggests "a pattern
- The DoJ announced Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit against Cloudera with its own Executive Office for Immigration Review, alleging multiple violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act by the firm
Summary
The DoJ announced Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit against Cloudera with its own Executive Office for Immigration Review, alleging multiple violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act by the firm for "intentionally discriminating against U.S. workers in favor of hiring workers with temporary visas. Cloudera's alleged discriminatory practices center on the Department of Labor's permanent labor certification program ( PERM ), a process employers use to sponsor workers already holding temporary visas such as H-1B for permanent jobs when no minimally qualified and available US worker can fill the role.
Approval of that labor certification lets an employer move on to immigration filings that can eventually support permanent residency.
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