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There 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 (us

• 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 ago
    Are 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.