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Why is an income requirement even needed? If a visa holder got an at-will job at Tech Company A and that visa were fully portable, then the visa holder could l
by amluto 4y ago
Why is an income requirement even needed? If a visa holder got an at-will job at Tech Company A and that visa were fully portable, then the visa holder could look for a better offer from Company B on an equal footing with everyone else, which seems like it would naturally drive their salary toward parity.
And this would also dramatically decrease the incentive for the employers to game the system, as H-1B visas would no longer be a source of cheap skilled labor.
(I personally know visa holders who were dramatically underpaid by tech companies and who did not feel like they could shop around.)
- flavius29663 4y agonot op, but because you need to have a way to differentiate between more people applying than available visas. Today we are using a literal lottery to get the winner, why not use an income based approach, which will select the top participants instead? Why would you choose by chance someone that has a 60k salary versus someone that has a 1M salary?