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H-1B are almost a lottery. The day they start accepting the requests (usually April 1st) they go over quota and they proceed by random selections (in October).
by davidedicillo 17y ago
H-1B are almost a lottery. The day they start accepting the requests (usually April 1st) they go over quota and they proceed by random selections (in October). Of course the processing fee is not refundable (over $1000).
With the money I spent in visas and attorneys in the past 5 years, you could hire a full time coder oversea for at least one year...
- lutorm 17y agoActually, in 2009 they didn't run out of quota for a long time. (Too bad I was only interested around April 10, 2008! By the time 2009 came around, it was a bit harder to find a job...)
- seldo 17y agoThe conditions of TARP for the banks meant that they could not hire H-1Bs. Since banks -- not tech -- were the biggest hirers of overseas workers, they still hadn't hit the cap in November 2009.