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> About 1): Non-immigrant means a person that doesn't have an intention to stay. In practice, many people with H-1Bs end up applying for a green card. Meaning t
by virtuabhi 8y ago
> About 1): Non-immigrant means a person that doesn't have an intention to stay. In practice, many people with H-1Bs end up applying for a green card. Meaning that most do have an intention to stay.
H1B is dual intent (unlike, lets say F1). You are allowed to file for immigration if you want to.
> About 2): The wage requirements were not updated for many years, not even for inflation and this resulted in a lot of people being hired for salaries that were lower than market value. This is bad for local workers.
You are blindly comparing salaries of Bay Area and other tech hubs with salaries in midwest. In 98.7% of the cases, the companies with low salaries on H1B have employees in remote regions of USA with above average salary, or they work in different fields which have lower median salaries.
- partycoder 8y agoYou are correct about the dual intent, I forgot that one. +1 Now, regarding the wages, that's a bit more controversial. IEEE-USA published this: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/ieeeusas-stance-on-the-h1b-visa-program http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ieee-roundup/blogs/blog/ieeeusa...
- partycoder 8y agoNow, some companies, like Tata, are extremely shady. They demand employees to give them power of attorney, they force employees to let them calculate their tax returns, and demand that employees give them their federal and state tax refund money. Maybe this is no longer the case, but doesn't change the fact they're shady AF. They could be possibly paying people less than what they're required to as well. Source: "Who Cheats and How?: Scams, Fraud and the Dark Side of the Corporate World" By Robin Banerjee Those guys should not be allowed to do business here.