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Those were just the more colorful examples because they were all from a single unknown university in Siberia, a rather sparsely populated region. These examples
by akiselev 10y ago
Those were just the more colorful examples because they were all from a single unknown university in Siberia, a rather sparsely populated region. These examples are very common, just not as concentrated in one company like Tata or Infosys. Just around the LA Eastern European and Caltech community, there are tens of thousands of immigrants who came here on H1Bs from the top of their classes and found high paying, extremely specialized jobs usually getting green cards and citizenship. If you expand the network to the LA metropolitan area including all the universities and aerospace companies, you're talking hundreds of thousand. Hundreds of thousands more in the New York metropolitan area.
Tens of thousands of H1Bs go to universities and smaller companies every year and many of those go on to get permanent residency so over decades, the numbers really add up. That doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of abuse, but you have to be extra careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.