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Those who abuse H1-B program, will easily circumvent this. As one owner of the consulting firm explained to me, they'll just use some kind of system, that says
by hospes 10y ago
Those who abuse H1-B program, will easily circumvent this.
As one owner of the consulting firm explained to me, they'll just use some kind of system, that says "You get paid $100K as a salary but you give back to the company $30K for some kind of service that it provides to you", so in the end they'll end up paying whatever they want.
To stop abuse of H1-B system, they need to limit % of H1-B employees in one firm.
But in general with increasing quality of collaborative tools, that make remote work easier, this problem will keep getting worse. Since companies do not need to hire you when you are abroad, they just need to have contract with your company abroad that will provide them "services" (which is a code word for 100 employees working full time for you in offshore office).
Most of the companies already do this and this issue will keep getting worse with increasing quality of collaborative tools and I am not sure what the solution is.
- sleepingeights 10y agoThe Indian H1B mills are deeply entrenched already in the tech industry. Consider the US intel activities in subverting US citizens rights, no one is surprised if even NSA and CIA database centers are outsourced to India. The CIA already runs alot of data in AWS, Azure etc where those companies are literally dominated by Indians. A common trick is to move US data offshore to get it cataloged by US spy agencies. For example, Google, SV, Redmond etc backing up client data in multiple offshore locations is fair game for NSA. They will easily find a way to mark around any 'plan' Trump can conceive of. It is also _highly_ doubtful Trump admin even wants to take them on.
- sleepingeights 10y agoThe Indian H1B mills are deeply entrenched already in the tech industry. Consider the US intel activities in subverting US citizens rights, no one is surprised if even NSA and CIA database centers are outsourced to India and the tech mills. The CIA already runs alot of data in AWS, Azure etc where those companies are literally dominated by Indians. You wouldn't be far off to call SV and Redmond little India, and no one really cares. A common trick is to move US data offshore to get it cataloged by US spy agencies. For example, Google, SV, Redmond etc backing up client data in multiple offshore locations is fair game for NSA. They will easily find a way to mark around any 'plan' Trump can conceive of. It is also _highly_ doubtful Trump admin even wants to take them on. Edit: to add, the moment any changes challenges the status quo the US tech companies, their "intel agencies", etc have set up , they're just going to expand and move into Canada. Canada has a large pool of available equivalents to H1bs. Bill Gates threatened to move Microsoft to Canada if he didn't get the policies he wanted and it worked. They'll do the same thing again.