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Hi Peter. I am on H-1B. What are the legal source of revenues other than the salary I receive from my employer (H-1B sponsor)? Is it ok to have capital gains, dividends, interests?
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Not Robert (and I defer to anything he has to say) but I teach a class that uses the LCA [H-1B] visa application database as a test dataset. If you banned all H-1Bs today, you would effectively be losing approximately half a million talented workers. Now, some would like to argue that this would "free up" half a million jobs for U.S. citizens, but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer could…
> but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer couldn't find a citizen for at a price they were willing to pay Trust me, there are a lot of abuses of the H1B program from "main stream" tech companies.
The Disney debacle cost Infosys $69 million, and they're included in that 3-4% number I quoted if that's what you're thinking of.
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Excellent and important issue. Ownership in and of itself is not a bar to TN classification - to be a bar the ownership is supposed to rise to the level of controlling - but USCBP (at the "border") and even USCIS sometimes (and more and more) take the position that it is or conclude that if one is a founder or has an ownership interest, one is a "manager" and not an "engineer" and therefore ineligible for TN classifi…
Thanks Peter! So then would you suggest to wait on (fingers crossed) getting an H1-B from an employer and then transferring to the new startup?
Hey Peter, thanks for this. Have you heard about SimpleCitizen? ( https://simplecitizen.com/ ) My wife and I were recently married and are currently considering this for getting her green card. Any thoughts?
I have a green card that will expire in August 2016. I also have a valid travel permit until 2018. If I do not renew my green card in August, and leave the country, will I still be able to return using the travel permit?
Hey Robert - My Question: What do you think would happen to tech in America if H1b's were done away with and all foreign workers had to leave?
Not Robert (and I defer to anything he has to say) but I teach a class that uses the LCA [H-1B] visa application database as a test dataset. If you banned all H-1Bs today, you would effectively be losing approximately half a million talented workers. Now, some would like to argue that this would "free up" half a million jobs for U.S. citizens, but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer could…
However I _have_ seen H1B postings so specific that one might wonder if the only missing information was the first and last name of the "chosen one" along with his birthdate, his second son's middle name and a traced outline of the birthmark on the back of his left shoulder.
In all instances the candidate had been chosen _before_ the job was posted publicly in the US. In some cases the chosen one was a relative of the person choosing, in others a crony of the one choosing.
The only reason for the US job posting was to bring in the requisite number of unsuspecting US citizen applicants who were then _always_ rejected.
So, using your number, if we banned all H-1Bs today, we would effectively be opening approximately half a million jobs for talented US citizen workers and selling half a million one-way tickets on boats or planes to other countries.
Hi Peter, I've received my green card through my sponsor company 2 months ago. (It's a highly reputable fortune 100 company and I am building their core web product) And I have a project that's getting traction and really want to leave the company and commit full time to it. But everything on the web says I need to wait at least 6 months before leaving the company after I receive green card, otherwise they can kick m…
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