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The simple solution is that an H1-B visa automatically converts to a green card in 12 months. The sponsoring corporation is responsible for completing any nece
by bsder 5y ago
The simple solution is that an H1-B visa automatically converts to a green card in 12 months. The sponsoring corporation is responsible for completing any necessary checks within that time period.
This takes care of wage suppression as people can leave after a year. This takes care of body shops clogging the pipelines as they have to spend their own money to finish the checks. This takes care of the limited number of visas as the pipeline empties every 12 months without fail.
This solves almost all the H1-B idiocy. This is, of course, why no one in the valley ever proposes this solution.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The simple solution is that an H1-B visa automatically converts to a green card in 12 months. The simple solution is “just abolish the H-1B”. If you want more employment-based immigrant visas, just increase the number of visas issued in the employment-based categories, and eliminate the domestic-wage-suppressing-guest-worker-visa-with-bureaucratic-overhead-to-pretend-its-not-for-suppressing-domestic-wages.
- ta988 5y agoThere are different categories of H-1B including for academics, you can't just abolish things like that. It is also a good way for people with unique skills (usually not in software) to wait for their green card availability.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> There are different categories of H-1B including for academics, you can't just abolish things like. Yes, you can. Someone might want to make the case that preserving H-1B for just academics in the case of general elimination is a good idea, but it's not the simple solution. > It is also a good way for people with unique skills (usually not in software) to wait for their green card availability. If you increase the number of, and properly allocate, visas in employment-based immigrant categories, you don't need a dual-intent non-immigrant visa category for people to “wait out” in. (You could further fix the waiting-out problem by eliminating per-country limits, and applying only the global limits in visa categories; it's the per-country limits that create the really absurd wait times.) Simple: if you want to accommodate more employment-based immigrants, increase employment-based immigrant visas rather than keeping an employment-based, mobility-limiting non-immigrant visa category around, but make it a possible immigration funnel because it allows dual intent.
- vsskanth 5y agoAre you aware of the total time it takes to sponsor someone's green card through employment and get them to the US ? It's a multi-step process involving DOL USCIS DOS with each step taking 6 months or more. If the employee is from a non-backlogged country you're looking at 1.5-2 years at a minimum. India is multiple decades longer. I don't think any company will wait that long for a single hire.
- bsder 5y agoI don't mind there being some amount of time between hired and eligible to switch jobs without restriction. Investigations take some amount of time. However, the time delay should be short. 12 months would be pretty close to ideal--24 months at worst. And the company should bear ALL the costs and deadlines of the required background checks and clearances. If they have to hire special investigators to get it all done--so be it--they wanted the candidate, after all. And, if the proper investigations don't get done, the company CEO goes to jail with a felony. None of this "token business fine" garbage.