Daily Beast: Vivek Ramaswamy Exposed for Using H1-B Visas Nearly 90 Times in the Last Decade
October 15, 2026
Columbus, Ohio- Reporting from The Daily Beast exposed billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy for using H-1B visas for his companies and their subsidiaries nearly 90 times in the past decade.
Ramaswamy previously called Ohio workers “lazy” and “mediocre” and was slated to give the keynote speech at a conference about outsourcing American jobs before online backlash forced him to cancel at the last minute. Ohioans can’t trust Ramaswamy to protect their jobs.
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- Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance share a home state, Ivy League education, big money jobs, big MAGA resumes, and burning ambition. But pictures of the two Ohioans—one the vice president, the other running for governor—together recently are in very short supply.
- Vance flew to Ohio on Friday, publicly said he’d voted for Ramaswamy, and addressed a rally in Lima, which was attended by the would-be governor. But the two did not pose together, on or off stage.
- Why so shy, JD and Vivek? The Swamp has uncovered an intriguing back-story. Both men are on the very opposite side of a crucial issue which Vance hopes to use to gin up his presidential chances, but which Ramaswamy probably wants to keep silent: H-1B visas.
- The immigrant visas have become a lightning rod, with accusations from conservatives that big companies, especially tech, have used them to import cheaper foreign labor, and force Americans out of good-paying jobs. And the day before he flew to Ohio, Vance announced a high-profile crackdown on the issuing of H-1B visas, calling the scheme “rife with fraud.”
- In contrast, The Swamp reviewed documents that show companies founded by Ramaswamy, or subsidiaries of it, used H-1B visas nearly 90 times in the last decade.
- Their use not only took place at his healthcare company Roivant, but were also used at nine of its subsidiaries between 2017 and 2024.
- Billionaire Ramaswamy has an alphabet soup of companies he’s involved in, the most important being his former company Roivant Sciences. That had already landed him in H-1B trouble, when it was reported during his failed presidential bid that it had 29 applications approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to hire employees under the H-1B visas between 2018 and 2023, the year Ramaswamy left the company to mount his 2024 campaign. (H-1B visas are approved for three years but can be extended another three years.)
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