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If your comment is related to H1B, I think you may be confusing this visa type with an O1. To apply for an H1B, you don't need to be highly skilled or have expe
by ozgune 9y ago
If your comment is related to H1B, I think you may be confusing this visa type with an O1. To apply for an H1B, you don't need to be highly skilled or have expert skills.
For the H1B, you only need to be applying to work in a "specialty occupation" and earn more than the prevailing wage for that occupation in the US.
From the USCIS website, "Generally speaking, a job is a specialty occupation if the occupation normally requires a bachelors degree in a related field of study. Jobs in fields such as engineering, math, and business, as well as many technology fields often qualify as a specialty occupation."
https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupation/h-1b-visa https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...
- letitgo12345 9y agoWhile O1 is more explicitly geared towards highly skilled, a lot of professors and researchers (and certainly most of the great engineers employed by FB, Google, etc.), from both India and elsewhere, actually come over on the H1B as the paper work is far more complicated for the O1.
- pm90 9y agoStill doesn't change the fact that H1B is not the visa for exceptional talent. Its simple a visa meant to hire people in occupations where there is deemed to be a shortage of workers, from what I read.
- letitgo12345 9y agoSure. My point is that I and others (and it seems Trump as well) want to see a system that is geared towards sth more merit based and towards exceptional talent. Any time people try and make a pitch about how legal immigrants are good for the country, most of the time they bring up people who would have qualified under a merit based system. So if a policy is being sold on the basis of X benefit to the American people, shouldn't the policy be geared towards actually bringing that benefit rather than fulfilling some other purpose?