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This is exactly how American companies game the h1b visa system. When I worked at AVG we would write job requirement so specific to an Israel developers who wo
by anticapit 6y ago
This is exactly how American companies game the h1b visa system. When I worked at AVG we would write job requirement so specific to an Israel developers who worked for one of our subsidiaries that it was clear no other human being in the world could qualify for it.
- da02 6y agoWhy Israeli developers? Just out of curiosity, do you have any recommendations for anti-virus software for mobile or for desktops?
- dalbasal 6y agoI don't think he meant israeli developers in general. Specific people.
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- anticapit 6y agoOh just in this case I was working at a security company and everybody we imported were from Israel. I’ve worked st 3 security companies and they all either had Israeli offices or had acquired Israeli security startups. It just seems to be a thing there.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoWorking for a subsidiary has a preferred status for getting a work permit in US. It is called L-1 Intra-Company Transfer Visa: L-1A and L-1B for transfer of managers and specialists https://workpermit.com/immigration/usa/employees-guide-us-immigration https://workpermit.com/immigration/usa/employees-guide-us-im...
- praeclarum 6y agoWhat you call gaming, I call working around the government’s idiotic visa requirements.
- sokoloff 6y agoThat depends on what you see as the purpose of the visa requirements. If the purpose is to support economic prospects for American citizens and current residents (which seems like a completely valid purpose of government), then putting hurdles to ensure the job opening was “shopped” to qualified existing authorized workers seems pretty reasonable. (I should clarify that I’m fully in favor of immigration programs that serve to increase the density of highly qualified individuals in the US and to fill positions which would otherwise go vacant. If as a small side-effect, those programs depress wages via increased supply, that’s still an excellent trade for the population. I am not in favor of visa programs substantially/primarily aimed at decreasing wages.)
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- 1cvmask 6y agoIncreased supply of labor depresses wages ceteris paribus. That is why George W Bush and older generation Republicans always supported legal AND illegal immigration. Their constituents were the businesss that thrived and made more profits from a cheaper laborforce. The Democrats were historically hostile to immigration because their base was the working class. Now that Wall Street and Big Business has gone Democratic since Bill Clinton and the New Democrats there will be more supply of labor and thus lower wages ceteris paribus.
- gnu8 6y ago> ceteris paribus Today I learned another useful latin expression.