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I thought the H-1B was supposed to be a lottery, how is any company having this much "good fortune"?
by s_Hogg 7y ago
I thought the H-1B was supposed to be a lottery, how is any company having this much "good fortune"?
- jumpinggenes 7y agoThey could be "older" H-1Bs , folks from India are waiting for a GreenCard since 2010, they can renew their H-1Bs in 3-year increments (perpetually) if they have a pending application for permanent residency.
- giovannibonetti 7y agoWell, the article mentions how many visas were approved, not how many were requested. Maybe there were many more that were requested, so that even with the lottery they got a huge number of accepted requests.
- semerda 7y agoRight, and here’s the dirty part of this process... some applications are under hiring agencies that later push those approved to the likes of Uber who might have maxed out their own allocations.
- dmode 7y agoThis is extraordinarily wrong. There are no allocations. Lottery only happens for first time H1 workers. But the number represented here includes first times, renewals, transfers. etc. There is no concept of allocations
- semerda 7y agoNot lottery. There are allocations (or were) per country to give it a more even spread. I know greencard applications still work like that based on origin of birth. Also the H1B process has always felt like who can create the most compelling application. Remember this is a specialization visa and you are basically demonstrating why (a) you cannot find such talent locally and (b) the value it will add to the US economy. So large companies with creative legal counsel do have an advantage over small shops.
- aksx 7y agoH1B is a lottery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Lottery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Lottery You might be thinking of the L1 visa