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> There are a lot of people out there on a H-1B visa working for companies that have gone through the process of trying to hire a US citizen first and failed to

> There are a lot of people out there on a H-1B visa working for companies that have gone through the process of trying to hire a US citizen first and failed to find anyone for that role (that isn't a software developer). Yes, but I still think those positions are better solved by increasing the salary for those positions. Even if you don't believe that, the H-1B as it exists today is trying to do too many things at once and it's failing at most of those. My specific policy proposal is on fixing it for the use case of finding high-skilled workers for high-paying jobs US citizens do not want to do today. I'm not at all against having other visa programs to solve other needs, including temp workers for tech consulting gigs, teachers or anything else, for that matter. I'm 100% pro immigration, as is anyone who understands Economics.

shagie 1y ago
Consider a different approach then. Instead of (what I consider would be) breaking the H-1B for everything that isn't tech, create another H-1 category visa. The Immigration act of 1990 split the H-1 visa into the H-1A (nurses) and H-1B (everything else). In 1999, the H-1C was created for nurses shortages (which expired in 2009). Would having a H-1D visa that is limited to jobs that are classified under the BLS 15-xxxx ( https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes_stru.htm#15-0000 https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes_stru.htm#15-0000 ) and have a different criteria (compare how the TN visa limits to specific occupations that align with the BLS occupational profiles - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-p-chapter-6 https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-p-chapter-... - which means that the classification is either a computer system analyst or engineer for someone from Canada or Mexico to get a technical job in the US). This would change the the other H visas to prohibit people from getting a visa for a position that would otherwise require a H-1D visa to be authorized to work. At that point, one could have an auction for those candidates and highest wage compensation wins. Might want to have something with a US masters degree again (as that's an important part of many graduate program income for universities). I still believe there are a number of second order effects that need to be considered in this suggestion (this would likely exacerbate the "immigrants are getting paid more than me" problems that one also sees with "juniors are getting paid more than me" - and yes, those are problems, but I think that this may make it worse). The thing is to not break the rest of the H-1B visas when trying to fix the problems caused by H-1B-dependent employers.

shagie 1y ago

Consider a different approach then. Instead of (what I consider would be) breaking the H-1B for everything that isn't tech, create another H-1 category visa. The Immigration act of 1990 split the H-1 visa into the H-1A (nurses) and H-1B (everything else). In 1999, the H-1C was created for nurses shortages (which expired in 2009). Would having a H-1D visa that is limited to jobs that are classified under the BLS 15-xxxx ( https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes_stru.htm#15-0000 https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes_stru.htm#15-0000 ) and have a different criteria (compare how the TN visa limits to specific occupations that align with the BLS occupational profiles - https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-p-chapter-6 https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-p-chapter-... - which means that the classification is either a computer system analyst or engineer for someone from Canada or Mexico to get a technical job in the US). This would change the the other H visas to prohibit people from getting a visa for a position that would otherwise require a H-1D visa to be authorized to work. At that point, one could have an auction for those candidates and highest wage compensation wins. Might want to have something with a US masters degree again (as that's an important part of many graduate program income for universities). I still believe there are a number of second order effects that need to be considered in this suggestion (this would likely exacerbate the "immigrants are getting paid more than me" problems that one also sees with "juniors are getting paid more than me" - and yes, those are problems, but I think that this may make it worse). The thing is to not break the rest of the H-1B visas when trying to fix the problems caused by H-1B-dependent employers.