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A simple solution: Auction the visas. This will raise the price of foreign talent until it reaches a balance point so it will be more difficult to abuse the vi
by Aldo_MX 10y ago
A simple solution: Auction the visas.
This will raise the price of foreign talent until it reaches a balance point so it will be more difficult to abuse the visa system to bring "cheap labor".
- fwiwm2c 10y agoThis hurts folks from non STEM fields who are also entitled to H1-B visas..
- tacostakohashi 10y agoThis is the correct answer. In particular, the suggestion in the article that there be some extra visa for "client side" consultants is pretty naive. Pretty much every job has some complex mixture of dealing with external clients, "internal clients", and internal work that doesn't relate to a specific client. The federal government is in no position to accurately make this assessment for any given job in a way that can't be trivially gamed. Most obviously, a sudden spike of "joint venture" companies between Wipro and companies, where the employees work only on company work for the JV, and never for an external client...