>You are not effectively tied to your employer in an H-1B visa yes and no. The H1b petition is effectively held by the employer. You cannot be jobless if you a

>You are not effectively tied to your employer in an H-1B visa yes and no. The H1b petition is effectively held by the employer. You cannot be jobless if you are on H1b or if the company fires you then you have to leave the country within 30(?) days. Emotionally this is a big factor. Even transferring H1b takes 6-8 months and premium processing has now been shut down. You cannot leave the country during transfer and even shifting companies is not straight forward. A couple of my colleagues had their visas rejected during transfer and had to leave US in few days; they could not even sell their car. The parent poster is more correct than IEEE pragmatically. Allow H1b to hold their own visas. This would fix most of the non-discrimination issues that people have with H1b. IEEE wants to hand out green cards instead of H1b which is highly impractical. It takes 10-20 years to get a green card and you want the government to start handing out to guest workers?