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No, the H-1B program is a useful tool for tens of thousands of immigrants to get established in the USA. Its structure lets it be abused by bottom feeding offsh
by scrumper 11y ago
No, the H-1B program is a useful tool for tens of thousands of immigrants to get established in the USA. Its structure lets it be abused by bottom feeding offshoring shops paying below market rates for onshore workers, who are enabled by their clients buying low-value IT services in bulk without any real thought as to what they are trying to achieve. You can't fix that without ending a comparatively low friction immigration channel for a very large number of people.
At one of my past employers we used H-1B visas to transfer Indian workers from our offices in Hyderabad to New York. The paperwork was much easier for us than trying to do L1s; the tradeoff being that, once here, they were free to seek employment elsewhere. None did: we treated and compensated them the same as our US citizen workers.
The visa is not the person.