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It's annoying that SV tech companies get a bad rap with the H-1B even though that the real people abusing these visas are clearly outsourcing firms like Tata and Infosys.
This is progress. Give a copy of this to your employer if they start talking about replacing you with an H1-B.
This is progress. Give a copy of this to your employer if they start talking about replacing you with an H1-B.
This makes no sense. If you are getting replaced then it's through an outsourcing company. Your employer wouldn't even be doing the fraud. It's the outsourcing company.
The H1 system is completely gamed by both outsources and employers with legions of people at both places gaming the paperwork. It really needs a total overhaul.
I'm not against foreign workers, but we should be getting the best foreign workers, not just the cheapest ones we can find. A good system might be a reverse auction system where H1s are allotted first to the highest offer and goes down until allotments are filled. Then, perhaps employers would consider all the local graduates and reserve H1 spots for exceptional talent we need from overseas.
This is progress. Give a copy of this to your employer if they start talking about replacing you with an H1-B.
It's annoying that SV tech companies get a bad rap with the H-1B even though that the real people abusing these visas are clearly outsourcing firms like Tata and Infosys.
The actual people playing games like this are small time bodyshops. It'll be two cousins from Ahmedebad starting a shop in the US and hiring a bunch of locals via their personal network. They then attempt to socially isolate their employees, getting them set up in the local Guju community, so they don't talk to outsiders and discover their true market worth.
In bay area there are quite a handful of such firms which fake person resume and help them find out the job. What surprises me is that employer does catch the difference in experience while interviewing and bunch of positions are filled. These firms file h1b shown more experience than what a person does actually have and make good money out of such schemes :(