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By 'cannot' do you mean _can't afford to_ or _are not allowed to_? Because companies can file a green card application (I-140) for someone under the 'Employment
by kinkrtyavimoodh 10y ago
By 'cannot' do you mean _can't afford to_ or _are not allowed to_? Because companies can file a green card application (I-140) for someone under the 'Employment Based' category.
- guitarbill 10y agoNeither, I mangled my train of though a bit. Let me try again. (Wish HN had strikethrough.) Dual intent is a great idea, and H1-B is really useful for companies who want to tempt highly skilled workers who aren't sure yet if they definitely want to immigrate. Some of my UK collegues stayed in the US, but about half came back after a few years. So that's a good reasons not to force companies to automatically apply for permanent residency, not everybody wants it (probably the majority though - hard to get numbers on this). But then if you do want permanent residency, the process takes ages. I'm not sure there's a good solution to this. One option would be to increase the cost of the H1-B application, require companies to submit the I-140, and pre-process it. Then if the visa holder decides to apply for permanent residency it's already mostly done. I think requiring companies to guarantee a certain employment time also fixes this though, because that way they're invested and the visa holder has time and safety to figure out if permanent residency is what they want.