New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
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#2India has more applicants than all other countries combined times 2.5
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are fraud and legitimately rejected
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...
Re: New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
#3Somehow, I don't see this article getting a lot of traction here on HN. I'm certain most of us have good friends and colleagues here in the US on an H1B Visa; I'm equally certain most of us have seen and experienced the abuse of the system.
H1B's stated purpose is "Specialty Occupation"s. A lot of these Visas are being used to bring in workers for very generic IT helpdesk jobs. There's still many that are granted for exceptional talents in the field of Information Technology and Computer Science, but there's also a large number granted to companies that are primarily outsourcers, whose appeal is not specialization but simply being cheap.
It's been suggested many times on HN that the regulations on H1Bs be changed to make it a bidding process - Only bring over applicants who are being paid the most. I'm not sure I agree or disagree, but I absolutely think more careful scrutiny of what's considered a "Specialist Occupation" is a step that's reasonable within the current regulations. There's a lot of complaints of Fraud and Abuse related to the program that are also being addressed with more careful scrutiny.
Re: New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
#4Eric Weinstein has some thoughts on this: https://mobile.twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/94208170561...
Read the paper he links to there.
Re: New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
#5From the article
a)approximately 80% of full-time graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering at U.S. universities are international students.
b)Economists Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber notes “A 1 percentage point increase in the foreign STEM share of a city’s total employment increased the wage growth of native college-educated labor by about 7–8 percentage points and the wage growth of non-college-educated natives by 3–4 percentage points.”
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#6Somehow, I don't see this article getting a lot of traction here on HN. I'm certain most of us have good friends and colleagues here in the US on an H1B Visa; I'm equally certain most of us have seen and experienced the abuse of the system. H1B's stated purpose is "Specialty Occupation"s. A lot of these Visas are being used to bring in workers for very generic IT helpdesk jobs. There's still many that are granted for…
If the H-1B statutes were enforced as written then the total number of applicants accepted each year would comfortably fit in a large conference room.
Re: New Evidence USCIS Policies Increased Denials Of H-1B Visas
#7Somehow, I don't see this article getting a lot of traction here on HN. I'm certain most of us have good friends and colleagues here in the US on an H1B Visa; I'm equally certain most of us have seen and experienced the abuse of the system. H1B's stated purpose is "Specialty Occupation"s. A lot of these Visas are being used to bring in workers for very generic IT helpdesk jobs. There's still many that are granted for…
If the H-1B statutes were enforced as written then the total number of applicants accepted each year would comfortably fit in a large conference room.
Please explain why you think so.
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#8I hope people rejected from H1-B will become leaders in STEM in their home countries. IMHO, it is highly questionable whether everyone desiring to work in the US is good for humanity (i.e., most of the world's population).
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#9India has more applicants than all other countries combined times 2.5 I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are fraud and legitimately rejected https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...
Having worked with H-1B "principal engineers" who can't write a bash script, I'm thinking yes, this is true.
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#10Eric Weinstein has some thoughts on this: https://mobile.twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/94208170561... Read the paper he links to there.
The decline in trust in "experts" isn't because people are stupid, it's because even uneducated Americans are actually pretty smart, more than smart enough to know when they're being lied to. This applies to people on both sides of the issues, it's just that the people who prefer the liars' side pretend not to notice the lying since they perceive it as beneficial to their interests.