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The point of the visa is supposedly to bring in unusually high-value workers. The value of a worker is called into question if they need a second income. The sa

by burfog 8y ago

The point of the visa is supposedly to bring in unusually high-value workers. The value of a worker is called into question if they need a second income. The same is true if a child consumes "most of the limited income". You should be able to afford a half dozen children and a house (4 bedroom, 3 bath, garage, fenced yard) and a car. Maybe you even send all of your kids to private school, or you pay full tuition at Harvard. The visa is supposedly not for people who just want to come take a couple ordinary jobs away from ordinary Americans. You're supposed to be extra-special and wonderful, bringing amazing value to the country. The idea is to let you try out the country, with the hope that you might become an unusually productive citizen. Anyway, if you don't like the deal, you don't have to accept the deal.

optymizer 8y ago
The purpose of an H1B visa is to bring in "foreign workers in specialty occupations" (engineers, architects, etc), not foreign workers that are able to command a very high salary (e.g. CEOs). Sometimes foreign workers are able to negotiate an above average salary, sometimes they can't, because the company has a very high reputation or access to unique resources and uses that as leverage (for example, NASA, Harvard, etc). Most likely, they'll get an average salary in exchange for being able to work at the company in a first world country, so they'll be able to afford whatever the 'local' Americans are able to afford in the area. Can your average American afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019? That's the real deal that's being sent in a Word document requiring your signature. Yes, you don't have to accept the deal, but the US government doesn't have to prevent spouses from seeking employment either, causing more issues for the immigrant families. Which one of these 2 options benefits the US more?
- burfog 8y ago
  The average engineer can afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019. The same goes for somebody who might be called a software architect, but not for the type of architect who draws floorplans and rooflines for houses. Maybe that doesn't work in San Francisco, but there are many other places to live in the USA. Most of the country is very affordable for somebody who can design software or hardware. As I understand it, getting an above-average salary is nearly a legal requirement. Going below average is prohibited. (one could be exactly average I think) To make a random example: $150,000 per year will have you living very well in Deerfield Beach, FL or in Georgetown, KY.

by burfog 8y ago

optymizer 8y ago

The purpose of an H1B visa is to bring in "foreign workers in specialty occupations" (engineers, architects, etc), not foreign workers that are able to command a very high salary (e.g. CEOs). Sometimes foreign workers are able to negotiate an above average salary, sometimes they can't, because the company has a very high reputation or access to unique resources and uses that as leverage (for example, NASA, Harvard, etc). Most likely, they'll get an average salary in exchange for being able to work at the company in a first world country, so they'll be able to afford whatever the 'local' Americans are able to afford in the area. Can your average American afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019? That's the real deal that's being sent in a Word document requiring your signature. Yes, you don't have to accept the deal, but the US government doesn't have to prevent spouses from seeking employment either, causing more issues for the immigrant families. Which one of these 2 options benefits the US more?

burfog 8y ago
The average engineer can afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019. The same goes for somebody who might be called a software architect, but not for the type of architect who draws floorplans and rooflines for houses. Maybe that doesn't work in San Francisco, but there are many other places to live in the USA. Most of the country is very affordable for somebody who can design software or hardware. As I understand it, getting an above-average salary is nearly a legal requirement. Going below average is prohibited. (one could be exactly average I think) To make a random example: $150,000 per year will have you living very well in Deerfield Beach, FL or in Georgetown, KY.