"Micro Positions" are a known scheme to hire foreign workers under H-1B visas. The employer must, prior to filing the H-1B petition, take good-faith steps to re

"Micro Positions" are a known scheme to hire foreign workers under H-1B visas. The employer must, prior to filing the H-1B petition, take good-faith steps to recruit US workers for the position for which the H-1B worker is sought. For example, if you want to hire a Brazilian, publish a position for a "Python Portuguese-language backend optimization engineer". The Portuguese-language part is just to assure no US worker is qualified.