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Precisely! Anyone familiar with this issue would know this is actually helping major high tech companies. But to most Americans who don't really know what is th

Precisely! Anyone familiar with this issue would know this is actually helping major high tech companies. But to most Americans who don't really know what is the deal with immigration, why let a chance to attack Trump administration go? :)

draw_down 9y ago
Ugh. Right, everyone is just soooo unfair to them. Give me a break.
wheretolive 9y ago
This isn't going to help high tech companies. EB1-C is a Green Card category for multinational managers. It is supposed to be used to move job creating foreign nationals to US. Till 2010, the body shop and consulting companies didn't use it much. However as rule tightened since 2010, these companies started using EB1-C to most low cost labor to US and delaying Green Card for everyone else. With EB1-C you can get Green Card within an year, cutting in line in front of everyone else from India. With this ruling, these companies are going to double down on EB1-C.
- echevil 9y ago
  Just one more thing to fix then. Even if these companies wants to double down on EB-1C, it’d still be much harder to bring in low skill tech workers as “multi-national managers”
  - DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
    I understand companies like Tata have job-titles like “Account executive” for (relatively) low-level employees which meets the “Executive-level employment” critter and rule for EB-1 classification - even though the term “executive” is clearly overloaded and inappropriate in this context.
    - jameshart 9y ago
      USCIS aren't fooled by job title inflation. Applications for these sorts of visas require substantial supporting documentation - typically org charts, detailed descriptions of responsibilities, resumes of people who report to the visa applicant, evidence of compensation commensurate with the claimed responsibilities, etc.
- eddieplan9 9y ago
  This is like criticizing cracking down on bank robbing by saying that now the criminals are going to rob restaurants instead.
  - wheretolive 9y ago
    This isn't criticizing bank robbing. It's just saying that cracking down on the bank robbing, might not make restaurants any safer. Only claim was that restaurants (hitech companies might benefit).
rdtsc 9y ago
Not just this but I've seen this in general last year. Reminds me of the media in a communist country: they better insert "glory to people's party" somewhere in the piece to increase the chance of passing the censorship filter. Here they have to somehow mention Trump. They could be talking about interior decorating, but unless they bring up Trump they won't get it approved by the censors.
tinus_hn 9y ago
‘Cracks down on abuse’ doesn’t really sound like an attack.

draw_down 9y ago

Ugh. Right, everyone is just soooo unfair to them. Give me a break.

wheretolive 9y ago

This isn't going to help high tech companies. EB1-C is a Green Card category for multinational managers. It is supposed to be used to move job creating foreign nationals to US. Till 2010, the body shop and consulting companies didn't use it much. However as rule tightened since 2010, these companies started using EB1-C to most low cost labor to US and delaying Green Card for everyone else. With EB1-C you can get Green Card within an year, cutting in line in front of everyone else from India. With this ruling, these companies are going to double down on EB1-C.

echevil 9y ago
Just one more thing to fix then. Even if these companies wants to double down on EB-1C, it’d still be much harder to bring in low skill tech workers as “multi-national managers”
- DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
  I understand companies like Tata have job-titles like “Account executive” for (relatively) low-level employees which meets the “Executive-level employment” critter and rule for EB-1 classification - even though the term “executive” is clearly overloaded and inappropriate in this context.
  - jameshart 9y ago
    USCIS aren't fooled by job title inflation. Applications for these sorts of visas require substantial supporting documentation - typically org charts, detailed descriptions of responsibilities, resumes of people who report to the visa applicant, evidence of compensation commensurate with the claimed responsibilities, etc.
eddieplan9 9y ago
This is like criticizing cracking down on bank robbing by saying that now the criminals are going to rob restaurants instead.
- wheretolive 9y ago
  This isn't criticizing bank robbing. It's just saying that cracking down on the bank robbing, might not make restaurants any safer. Only claim was that restaurants (hitech companies might benefit).

rdtsc 9y ago

Not just this but I've seen this in general last year. Reminds me of the media in a communist country: they better insert "glory to people's party" somewhere in the piece to increase the chance of passing the censorship filter. Here they have to somehow mention Trump. They could be talking about interior decorating, but unless they bring up Trump they won't get it approved by the censors.

tinus_hn 9y ago

‘Cracks down on abuse’ doesn’t really sound like an attack.