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As a person from New Zealand without an advanced degree (from anywhere) but with 30+ years industry experience (and previously granted an H-1B in 2001), this se
by brucehoult 8y ago
As a person from New Zealand without an advanced degree (from anywhere) but with 30+ years industry experience (and previously granted an H-1B in 2001), this seems like the wrong way to tackle the problem of Indian body shops.
I was selected in this year's lottery in April and am still waiting for them to start processing the case -- according to their web site it could easily take until sometime in February, ten months after submitting the paperwork. Thank goodness I'm able to do contract work for the company remotely in the meantime.
As for pushing US salaries down ... my salary is well into six figures, thank you. And was, even in my previous job, in Moscow.
If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?
Or, just get moving with the proposed increase in the minimum salary from $60k to $130k. I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't.
And the processing times are criminal. It's probably going to be a year from submitting the paperwork until actually moving to the US -- and with six months of the three years of the visa (starting October 1) already gone.
Getting the Russian equivalent "Highly Skilled Specialist" visa (3 years, plus one 3 year renewal, minimum salary 2 million rubles a year) only took two months.
- nxc18 8y agoSome companies would be decimated (literally) by a move from 60k to 130k... But it would definitely cut down on abuse or result in a big raise for the locals.
- RandomInteger4 8y agoI don't think they would be decimated; they would just have to alter the heuristics of the automated resume -> trash bin filters so that they select from the candidates they've been ignoring for absurd reasons.
- briandear 8y agoBut you have over 20 years of experience. Most H1Bs aren’t at that level so your six figures isn’t a good comparison.
- mavelikara 8y ago> If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card? How does that help the stated issue? I think you are asking to be rewarded for the hard work it took you to be born in a tiny low-population country. /s
- surfallday 8y agohttps://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-may-eliminate-country-caps-employment-visas?fbclid=IwAR3sKhm8XTi9Omd2yj0hVRIjK_s_KLmIY_oGpJmLSz-ZrRLluInB8wJtelM https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-may-eliminate-countr...
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoCountry quotas are bad. It’s not Indians that are the problem, it’s specifically the Indian body shops. No sense penalizing the good candidates who are doing things right. American tech giants are the ones to blame for this problem. They are hiring massive amounts of contractors (“vendors”) through these companies so they don’t have to have FTEs on their balance sheet. They’ll go away on their own once the market stops supporting them.
- GordonS 8y agoThis is a good point, but realistically, most of the body shops are based in India, and that's not likely to change.
- canttestthis 8y ago> I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't. This comment is just bordering on being inappropriate. The H1-B is a skilled worker program. Having a per country cap makes absolutely no sense.
- redditmigrant 8y agoThe term country quotas makes me so mad. Country quotas in the GC system are absolutely awful, because they base things on the one thing you cant change, where you were born. They favor iddly biddly countries like NZ, where the mediocre Kiwis get GCs way before well qualified and much better compensated Indians. (If you sense the condescension towards NZ in the previous sentence, its intentional. Its to give you a sense for how an Indian felt reading your post.)