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The article says that the biggest employers are "consulting companies" it would be more correct to say they are off-shoring companies. The disconnect between t
by Amadou 13y ago
The article says that the biggest employers are "consulting companies" it would be more correct to say they are off-shoring companies. The disconnect between the rhetoric about H1B and the reality is staggering.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134694/Whos-Hiring-H1-B-Visa-Workers-Its-Not-Who-You-Might-Think http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134...
I also want to point out that despite the occasional anecdote of H1B visa holders being paid equal to, or even better than, their US citizen counterparts there is exactly zero budget for enforcement of this requirement. Even then, there are classification tricks to work around the occasional cursory check-up.
http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-about-h-1b-visas-could-hurt-us-all/ http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-...
- ojbyrne 13y agoThat latter article says "It’s a non-immigrant visa and so has nothing at all to do with staying in the USA, becoming a citizen, or starting a business." which is incorrect. It's a dual intent visa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent). I didn't really read past that.
- Amadou 13y agoThat seems like a rather minor point to focus on. As the wiki article you linked to spells out, dual-intent just means that the visa-holder is not barred from applying for a green-card while in country. It isn't like holding an H1B is a necessary part of the process for getting a green card, or even necessarily a leg up on the process.
- blinkingled 13y ago>It isn't like holding an H1B is a necessary part of the process for getting a green card, or even necessarily a leg up on the process. How else does a young graduate outside of US, not part of the diversity green card program get a Green Card without H1-B or L1 Visas? Realistically H1-B/L1 visas are the only option for many people aspiring for green cards.
- Amadou 13y agoYou are seeing it from the POV of the applicant, not from the POV of the people who designed the H1B visa program. It is their intent that matters and if their intent were to facilitate such people's immigration there are better ways to do it since the green card process takes nearly the maximum term of an H1B visa. If you don't start the process from basically day one, you are probably not going to get that green card. If you switch employers mid-stream, the green-card process must restart which puts a practical end to it too.
- blinkingled 13y ago>If you don't start the process from basically day one, you are probably not going to get that green card. If you switch employers mid-stream, the green-card process must restart which puts a practical end to it too. And the alternative to that is to do what? Not bother and not try getting the green card?
- Amadou 13y agoThe alternative would be a visa that was designed to avoid such punitive requirements. One that fast-tracked the applicant to a green card and automatically extended the term in case there was a delay in issuing the green card.
- blinkingled 13y agoOh - that one I completely agree. I wasn't looking at it from that angle. Certainly a VISA that not only screens the applicants and the jobs better and doesn't impose random restrictions would be of benefit to everyone.
- ojbyrne 13y agoI don't think either of your points here are correct either. Once you're in the process for the green card you can apply for extensions of your H1B. And from what I've been told, there is a point where you can switch employers and still continue with your green card application.
- nandemo 13y agoIt is a non-immigrant visa since it doesn't give you permanent residence. However, the "and so has nothing to do..." part is a non-sequitur indeed.