Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships

特朗普政府司法部获得对 OpenAI 绿卡员工担保流程的监管权

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that includes three years of oversight over the AI lab’s hiring practices. 美国司法部民权司周三宣布，OpenAI 及其曾经的子公司 Statsig 已签署一份和解协议，其中包括对该人工智能实验室的招聘行为进行为期三年的监管。

The DOJ has alleged that these companies used various tactics to prevent U.S. citizens from applying for jobs held by immigrant employees when the companies were sponsoring those workers for permanent U.S. residence. 司法部指控称，这些公司在为移民员工担保美国永久居留权（绿卡）时，采取了多种手段阻止美国公民申请这些职位。

The companies did not admit to wrongdoing, although they did agree to pay $3.2 million. Of that, $1.2 million is a fine and the remaining $2 million is being set aside to pay restitution to U.S. citizens who applied to those jobs, should the DOJ find any who were harmed. 这些公司并未承认存在不当行为，但同意支付 320 万美元。其中 120 万美元为罚款，其余 200 万美元将预留用于向申请过这些职位的美国公民进行赔偿（如果司法部发现有受害者的话）。

The DOJ alleged that OpenAI and Statsig broke provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by not truly looking for qualified U.S. citizens for these jobs before pursuing permanent residence applications (PERM) as the INA requires. 司法部指控称，OpenAI 和 Statsig 违反了《移民与国籍法》（INA）的相关规定，即在申请永久居留权（PERM）之前，未按照法律要求真正寻找合格的美国公民来填补这些职位。

The DOJ said they didn’t list roles on public job boards, advertised on the radio late at night, and required paper applications rather than electronic ones. 司法部表示，这些公司没有在公共招聘网站上发布职位信息，而是在深夜通过广播发布广告，并要求应聘者提交纸质申请而非电子申请。

While there were fewer than 10 roles at issue, the DOJ said that as part of the settlement, the companies must pay the fine and submit to oversight by the department over their PERM roles. 虽然涉及的职位不到 10 个，但司法部表示，作为和解协议的一部分，这些公司必须支付罚款，并接受司法部对其 PERM 相关职位的监管。

Oversight includes items such as drafting and obtaining approval for their PERM-role hiring policies and submitting semi-annual reports. Those reports must include how many applications for foreign employees they pursued, how many U.S. citizens they interviewed and other statistics. 监管内容包括起草 PERM 职位招聘政策并获得批准，以及提交半年一次的报告。这些报告必须包含他们为外国员工提交了多少份申请、面试了多少名美国公民以及其他统计数据。

OpenAI acquired AI A/B testing company Statsig in September 2025, and later divested at least part of the business in May 2026. The DOJ, however, says it began investigating both companies separately before the acquisition, in August 2025, including five cases at OpenAI between 2023 and 2025, and one at Statsig. OpenAI 于 2025 年 9 月收购了人工智能 A/B 测试公司 Statsig，并于 2026 年 5 月剥离了该业务的至少一部分。然而，司法部表示，其在收购前的 2025 年 8 月就开始分别调查这两家公司，其中包括 OpenAI 在 2023 年至 2025 年间的 5 起案件，以及 Statsig 的 1 起案件。

The DOJ says that this settlement is part of its increased crackdown on companies over the matter. However, the INA, a law passed in 1952, has been enforced by other administrations against other big tech companies. During Biden’s administration, for instance, both Facebook and Apple signed similar settlements, though in both of those cases the DOJ alleged that the violations were widespread and systematic. 司法部表示，此次和解是其针对此类问题加强对企业打击力度的一部分。然而，《移民与国籍法》是一部 1952 年通过的法律，其他政府也曾利用该法对其他大型科技公司进行过执法。例如，在拜登政府期间，Facebook 和 Apple 都签署过类似的协议，尽管在这两起案件中，司法部指控的违规行为更为广泛且具有系统性。