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> Nobody can reasonably defend it at scale I mean its perfectly defendable, its a way of depriving the rest of the world of highly skilled, motivated people.
by KaiserPro 1y ago
> Nobody can reasonably defend it at scale
I mean its perfectly defendable, its a way of depriving the rest of the world of highly skilled, motivated people.
As we've seen several times before, all it takes to turn a country into a backwater is brain drain. Vienna was _literally_ the centre of arts, culture and commerce, until it wasn't.
> These companies value access to the US market much more than employing a few H1Bs.
I think thats the point, its going to be used as a tool of favour/coercion. "good companies" will get h1bs, "bad companies" will not.
- JCM9 1y agoThere are lots of other pathways to do this outside the H1B. The US doesn’t need H1Bs to suck brain drain from elsewhere.
- alephnerd 1y agoL1 is backlogged, O1 is backlogged, and the eb1/2-to-greencard (not citizenship) backlog is reaching 20 years for those born in India and China. On top of that salaries have gotten significantly higher in both countries now ($60k-80k TC mid career) At this point, most H1B sponsorship is for a candidate on an OPT, but now there is an incentive to relocate those employees back to a foreign office (Canada, India, Singapore, etc). And, leaving aside tech - healthcare workers like nurses and doctors, along with academics are overwhelmingly sponsored via H1B - not O1. Say goodbye to the Phillipines-to-US pipeline that was helping keep rural healthcare infra on it's last legs.