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Good. The top 10 recipients are all outsourcing bodyshops. It's undeniable the program is being abused and no longer functions the way it was intended.

emodendroket 10y ago
Here's my question: wouldn't it fix a lot of the issues with the program if preference were given to awarding visas to largest number of sponsors, rather than a true lottery? So in essence you couldn't get a second visa in the lottery as a sponsor until every sponsor had gotten at least one.
- qaq 10y ago
  thats a good idea
- diogenescynic 10y ago
  No, it should just be an auction. Bring in the top earners and the specialized skills will follow. Most of the companies are bringing in H-1B workers who lack experience and specialized knowledge/skills. In addition, somewhere between 47 and 85% of H-1Bs are being significantly underpaid compared to their peers: >Wages for H-1B workers in computer programming occupations are overwhelmingly concentrated at the bottom of the U.S. pay scale. Wages on LCAs for 85 percent of H-1B workers were for less than the median U.S. wage in the same occupations and state. http://cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages http://cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages The top H-1B recipients: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx Make the H-1B 'lottery' into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, and Cognizant that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.
  - emodendroket 10y ago
    Yeah, but my suggestion would do that too and wouldn't overwhelmingly tip the scales in favor of particular industries.
  - ones_and_zeros 10y ago
    Except that the industry will lobby for that 65,000 number to be increased to say 195,000 [0] or higher until they can get their $55k per year programmers in SF. And it will work, because it has in the past. And that is a bill that has A LOT of bipartisan support. [0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s153/summary https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s153/summary
- th0waway 10y ago
  No, it's a bad idea, because then someone would just create dozens, hundreds of companies, and apply for one visa each.

emodendroket 10y ago

Here's my question: wouldn't it fix a lot of the issues with the program if preference were given to awarding visas to largest number of sponsors, rather than a true lottery? So in essence you couldn't get a second visa in the lottery as a sponsor until every sponsor had gotten at least one.

qaq 10y ago
thats a good idea
diogenescynic 10y ago
No, it should just be an auction. Bring in the top earners and the specialized skills will follow. Most of the companies are bringing in H-1B workers who lack experience and specialized knowledge/skills. In addition, somewhere between 47 and 85% of H-1Bs are being significantly underpaid compared to their peers: >Wages for H-1B workers in computer programming occupations are overwhelmingly concentrated at the bottom of the U.S. pay scale. Wages on LCAs for 85 percent of H-1B workers were for less than the median U.S. wage in the same occupations and state. http://cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages http://cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages The top H-1B recipients: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx Make the H-1B 'lottery' into an auction. Instead of accepting 65,000 H-1Bs at random--accept the 65,000 H-1Bs with the highest wages. That way we are getting the immigrants with the highest valued skills and stopping companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, and Cognizant that game the immigration system by applying for the cheapest H-1Bs possible.
- emodendroket 10y ago
  Yeah, but my suggestion would do that too and wouldn't overwhelmingly tip the scales in favor of particular industries.
- ones_and_zeros 10y ago
  Except that the industry will lobby for that 65,000 number to be increased to say 195,000 [0] or higher until they can get their $55k per year programmers in SF. And it will work, because it has in the past. And that is a bill that has A LOT of bipartisan support. [0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s153/summary https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s153/summary
th0waway 10y ago
No, it's a bad idea, because then someone would just create dozens, hundreds of companies, and apply for one visa each.