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by verst 10y ago
Honestly, I can't represent it well. Let's just say that we are all good human beings committed to making things better for all of us. Very politically active individuals with deep government experience and connections.
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by verst 10y ago
A lot of us former (and some current) federal government employees working in various technology aspects under POTUS 44 (Obama) are continuing to work in various ways to bring meaningful change to the people (across private and public secto
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by verst 10y ago
You joke, but that definitely has crossed my mind. I've been avoiding the recent protests out of an abundance of caution. But I'm prepared [1] for my first day as a citizen tomorrow. [1]: medium.com/@BerndVerst/preparing
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by verst 10y ago
The details matter here: If you are a H-1B dependent employer ( 8 H-1B workers if the company is < 26 total employees, 13 if 26-50, and 15% of workforce if 50+) then: You can either (1) prove that no US citizen is being displaced and no
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by verst 10y ago
I'm a big fan of her bill for the above (market-based) approach and other reasons: - F-1 student visa becomes dual-intent. This is huge! Essentially an employer could now sponsor permanent residency directly out of a PhD program (or ev
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Preparing for my first day as a U.S. citizen(medium.com)
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by verst 10y ago
You currently cannot file for an adjustment of status to legal permanent resident while on a F-1 visa. This also includes employment-based Greencard. Currently you would need to obtain a H-1B before you could apply for employment-based perm
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by verst 10y ago
Congrats Matt. It was a pleasure to meet you at the USDS ice cream social last fall. Today was my last day at 18F. I'm returning to private sector, for now. I'm proud of what we accomplished in building cloud.gov. I think 2017 wil
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by verst 10y ago
I'm German and (as stereotypes would have it) extremely privacy conscious. Having lived in the US for over a decade I've reluctantly come to terms with the lesser privacy standards here. For a long time I refused to keep a lot of
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by verst 10y ago
I'd like to think that my government team is trying to approach this the right way. I work on a small team of about 12 within 18F (part of the General Services Administration). We are creating cloud.gov, a Platform as a Service (think
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by verst 10y ago
https://join.18f.gov
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by verst 10y ago
I work at 18F on cloud.gov. Shameless plus: I'm giving a talk on cloud.gov at Structure 2016 in SF next week. [1] [1]: http://www.structureconf.com/structure-2016/schedule/
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Our Civic Duty as Techies(medium.com)
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[Edit] Disclaimer: I haven't used App Engine in a while now. I don't recall whether Ingress specifically ran into anti-patterns (or we advised them early enough to avoid them). As I left Google in 2013 I am not sure what the exper
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by verst 10y ago
Ingress ran on App Engine. I was one of several people working with Niantic at the time to address application architecture issues to avoid App Engine anti-patterns.
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Google right? I used to work there too. I thought Google was especially open internally, which really allowed me to thrive.
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18F Handbook(handbook.18f.gov)
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by verst 10y ago
Germany doesn't allow dual citizenship either, unless you acquire dual citizenship at birth (perhaps you were born in the US but your mother is German). In all other cases one either loses their German citizenship (or surrenders their
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Clinton pledges to make the U.S. Digital Service permanent if elected(fedscoop.com)
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by verst 10y ago
I'm only talking about the subclass of foreign workers who are educated in the US and already in the country. They surely would not accept longer working hours or less pay. I didn't say these graduates aren't competing, mere
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by verst 10y ago
Article referenced by parent only has data for state funds making up 16 percent of the total budget in 2004/2005. Using that source no conclusions can be made for the following years. Only percentage of tuition (across all students) as
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by verst 10y ago
>> Are you seriously saying that foreign students subsidize the education of US citizens? That is one of the most absurd statements I've ever read on HN. US student's educations are paid for by student loans, they fund their
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by verst 10y ago
The University of California system is exactly what I was referring to. They increasingly admit more out of state and international students to deal with their increasing budget problems and to counteract otherwise necessary larger tuition
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by verst 10y ago
Right. That's a common route for those who didn't attend a US university and didn't win the lottery. If you went to a US university, you would have started working on your F1 OPT. You now have 3 years to win the lottery. If t
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by verst 10y ago
Are you suggesting that companies should not be able to hire the most qualified individuals who went through the same system as everybody else? [EDIT (rephrasing): There is no particular training provided. The international students receive
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by verst 10y ago
Thanks! I stand corrected! Does that mean the H1B validity now also starts before October 1? The 17 month extension would have ended October 1 (traditionally the H1B start date). So I am curious what happens if one applies for and is grante
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by verst 10y ago
29 months actually - from the typical graduation filing date of April 1 to the H1B validity start date of October 1 two years later. This 17 months extension only applied to STEM majors last time I checked. It was introduced in the spring
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by verst 10y ago
Exactly! Thanks for this insightful comment.
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This might be interesting to some: The big tech companies in the Bay area may initially hire recent international student graduates on F-1 OPT status and then attempt to apply for their H-1B. If this fails the common approach is to move the
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by verst 10y ago
This abuse of the H-1B program also hurts the many students attending US universities, hoping to gain work experience here post graduation. Remember that the number of H-1B visas granted every year are capped. Plenty of students from top US

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