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An H1B is only "valid" for 3 years. It can be extended once for an additional 3 years. It being FAANG doesn't change that. Your argument appears to be against
by nrmitchi 5y ago
An H1B is only "valid" for 3 years. It can be extended once for an additional 3 years.
It being FAANG doesn't change that.
Your argument appears to be against the fact that additional extensions are possible after an an individual has filed for permanent residency, but the process is delayed (often by a completely inhumane amount of time).
So your problem isn't so much with the H1B visa, but with the fact that people can apply for permanent residency and then be held in limbo for the rest of their life?
If it wasn't for the absurd delay in processing permanent residency applications, H1B's would only last for 6 years; well within the span of "temporary".
- Zigurd 5y agoAt 6 years the employer can help get them a green card, which if they are within the letter and spirit of workers they can't find at any price in the US, is perfectly fine.
- kfprt 5y agoThey can apply for a green card but they're never going to get it if they're from India or China. I don't think this was anticipated when the law was written.
- kfprt 5y agoThe green card infinite extension is just a bug in the system. H1B was very much supposed to be a temporary program while the company can train an American. It's almost entirely misuse bar a few PhD's.
- nrmitchi 5y agoSo your problem is with allowing companies to sponsor Permanent Residency applications at all?
- kfprt 5y agoI'm not an immigration lawyer but I assume sponsoring a permanent resident would be covered under a different program with different rules. Trying to shoehorn this into H1B is very much the wrong program and abuse. The intent of the program was that the green card application would have been accepted or rejected within a reasonable time frame and not exist as a way to extend the temporary H1B indefinitely.
- nrmitchi 5y agoLiterally 0 people who are in limbo on an extended H1B would object to green card applications being accepted or rejected within a reasonable time frame.