ambrood

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by ambrood 10y ago
You realise H1B's are location specific right? All these "fixes" everyone keeps bringing up are actually a part of the law as it stands.
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by ambrood 10y ago
"The resolution recommended that in order to ensure the impartiality of the plebiscite Pakistan withdraw all tribesmen and nationals who entered the region for the purpose of fighting and that India leave only the minimum number of tro
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by ambrood 11y ago
Except most immigrants out here in the valley at the very least take the old F1 student > H1B visa route. H1B is practically the only option you have to work in this country regardless of whether you got that PhD at Stanford or came here
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by ambrood 11y ago
It is entirely upto Congress to pass a sensible legislation, which they've been refusing to for a better part of last 8 years.
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by ambrood 11y ago
While getting a new H1B has become statistically impossible given the statutory limits that Congress refuses to revise, there are other visas like the O1 and J-1 that are still possible. We have a couple of guys at my company in San Francis
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by ambrood 11y ago
> You can use your remaining H1B time with the same or any other employer. As I see it, this is the law of the land, take it or leave it; complaining is not an option IMO. Given that I pay taxes and am subject to immigration laws a lot
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by ambrood 11y ago
But what if you want to take a year off? Or just some time off inbetween jobs to travel? AFAIK you need to stay employed with a sponsoring employer all the while. Plus it definitely makes you risk averse as far as doing your thing is conce
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by ambrood 11y ago
Well I'm aware there are many other countries I could move to and to be honest India isn't such a bad place either. But its about more than opportunities, most of the people I care about, all my friends happen to live here in Ame
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by ambrood 11y ago
> I think the notion that after working (and paying taxes) in the US for 6 years, a person has to wait another 10 years to reap the benefits of permanent residency simply because they were born in a particular country is morally indefens
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by ambrood 11y ago
> - Limiting the amount of visas that one country can claim (similar to the green card lottery) How can anyone in their right mind justify per country caps that signify the racialist compromises of the Civil Rights Act. I came to this co
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by ambrood 11y ago
This hits home in so many ways than one. I came to this country at 17 to attend college, 2 degrees and 8 years later I was recently let go. Thankfully I'm an Engineer in SF so it shouldn't be too bad to find another employer and g
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by ambrood 11y ago
This would be the base salary.
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by ambrood 11y ago
I live in the Mission, not more than 2 blocks from the place they mention and yet I can't relate to this either.
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by ambrood 12y ago
Oh c'mon. The parliament in Westminster is effectively the English parliament, the MPs from outside England notwithstanding.
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by ambrood 12y ago
I recall a diplomatic incident with India when they tried to take away custody of Indian citizen children from their parents and put them in foster care or something.
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by ambrood 12y ago
Not to mention the fact that a sizeable number of Indians on H1Bs actually went to great grad schools... Not everyone from India came here to work for a bodyshop.
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by ambrood 12y ago
He's referring to the Ellis Island of course.
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by ambrood 12y ago
most employers typically don't start your greencard application until you've been working for them for 1-2 years.
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by ambrood 12y ago
And such an option does not exist.
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by ambrood 12y ago
And how does one get a green card in this country pray tell? One need to have an underlying immigration status in this country while you begin your decade long process for a gc.
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by ambrood 12y ago
In a sense that your employer needs to file a Labor certification application, determine the prevailing wage and ultimately USCIS granting your petition. It takes a while to get it all done.
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by ambrood 12y ago
Many of these applications are probably for a transfer of status implying that the beneficiaries are already on an H1B working for some other employer.
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by ambrood 12y ago
A fair amount of those GC applicants are also the people who came here via consulting companies like Wipro/TCS etc.
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by ambrood 12y ago
Well most American employers do take this very seriously. I've typically been offered salaries well past the prevailing wage.
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by ambrood 12y ago
I came across this link which lists in detail every H1B petition filed by an employer over last few years. One interesting thing is that they list the actually wage offered by a company for a given position to the beneficiary of each petiti
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Database of all H1B petitions by company(visadoor.com)
130 points by ambrood 12y ago|39 comments
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by ambrood 12y ago
Anti immigration reform nativists from the south are no doubt going to use this to tar all the SV tech companies and H1Bs even if these poor schmucks weren't here on an H1.
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by ambrood 12y ago
A lot has happened in modern day India since 1911 Britannica encyclopedia came out which where you evidently got your racist generalizations about Indians from...
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by ambrood 12y ago
Some of the smartest colleagues I had at Yahoo were based in India. The way Yahoo worked, all interesting projects/teams were based in SNV with satellite offices working on maintenance projects and legacy stuff. So sunsetting of projec
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by ambrood 12y ago
Nobody was really working on yapache when I worked there around 2 years ago.

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