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That is one of the most uncharitable comments I've ever read on HN
by Jare 5y ago
That is one of the most uncharitable comments I've ever read on HN
- VictorPath 5y agoIt's great that the Fortune 500 companies who lobbied for these visas are doing so out of such charitable motives - tying tech coolies to companies on 3 year visas. The whole thing is charitable motives, not stockholder profit. I guess the secret wage collusion by Jobs, Schmidt and Silicon Valley companies was for charitable motives too. Every day on HN is a new front page story on Chinese yellow peril full of comments about how the west should go back to the old colonial motif of sending the navies into China. But you just saw the most uncharitable comment ever, congratulations.
- rayiner 5y agoI don’t read it as realistic. H1B is clearly spelled out in the law books as a “temporary worker visa,” but people have treated it as a path to permanent residency. What was offered on paper was an inch, and the expectations were built into a mile. (And to be fair, that is the fault of everyone involved, from the government to employers, but also immigrants who didn’t read the fine print.)
- 8note 5y agoIthe H1b is a dual intent visa mind you, vs something like the TN, which doesn't allow you to apply for a green card
- rayiner 5y agoH1B is a non-immigrant temporary worker visa under the statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101 “Dual intent” is a legal fiction that was created to allow people apply for green cards while still pretending they have the non-immigrant intent required for the H1B visa. Dual intent allows the H1B visa to be used as a first step to permanent immigration in practice, but it’s still a “no guarantees” temporary worker visa according to the letter of the law. Congress never actually created a true permanent immigration visa for skilled workers.