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If there's a demand for certain roles, which clearly seems to be the case, what difference does it make where the people filling those roles comes from?
Well, I would prefer them to come from the US instead of allowing companies to import cheaper workers from abroad.
Indians account for 73.9 percent out of the total number of H1B visa holders in the USA. Now i wouldn't want anyone to be discriminated but still it makes sense to limit green card based on nationality
If there's a demand for certain roles, which clearly seems to be the case, what difference does it make where the people filling those roles comes from?
Each time a developer works for the US from abroad, the US economy loses up to 50% o salaries in taxes for gov funding, and up to 80% of the reminder in spending within the economy.
An argentine developer making 150k from the US pays 0 taxes and spends 80%+ in argentina. If he moves to the US he pays 60k in taxes and spends 80%+ in the US.
US is shooting itself in the foot so hard. The solution is the easiest - remove H1b caps.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I would prefer them to come from the US instead of allowing companies to import cheaper workers from abroad.
Why is that?
Indians account for 73.9 percent out of the total number of H1B visa holders in the USA. Now i wouldn't want anyone to be discriminated but still it makes sense to limit green card based on nationality
The source of the huge delay for Indian-born people is these four facts:
1. India has a population exceeding one billion;
2. Green cards have a diversity rule that no more than 7% of applicants can come from a single country;
3. Your category is based solely on country of birth not country of citizenship; and
4. H1B visas have no per-country caps or quotas (beyond the total annual quota).
The companies that are really ruining this for anyone are the bodyshops like Tata and Infosys who direclty benefit from the situation. As the article mentions, if you have a pending I140 petition you can stay beyond the 6 year limit and changing jobs is dangerous. So employes get to hold this over employees creating an indentured servant type situation for 10+ years. These bodyshops flood applications and create the lottery problem.
There are numerous problems with all of this and (I really do hate to say this but it's true) the only administration who even made noises about reforming the H1B system was the Trump administration like basing H1B on salary (these bodyshops pay low for software engineers). None of this came to pass.
Here's one big problem: children ageing out of the system. If an Indian national has a pending green card petition and their child is born outside the US and that child gets to age 18 before the petition is approved, they are no longer eligible to receive a green card as part of their family's petition. Given how long Indian delays are, this may mean deporting someone to a country they left when they were 6 months old and have no memory of. They may not even speak the language.
Prior to the pandemic a couple of bills floated around to fix this backlog, most notably S369 [1]. These all ultimately went nowhere and (IMHO) had a lot of problems. For example, this didn't really increase the annual caps (it did, kinda, by only counting the petitioner and not their family against the quota) and eliminated the per-country cap. But what this would've done is made things terrible for everyone else for a transition period of years.
I am in the grips of it now: my ex and I both filed to renew our green card within a week or so of each other in early 2021. She received her replacement card in less than six weeks. According to the USCIS web site I still have at least another eight months to wait.
Meanwhile I can’t even get a stamp in my passport to indicate my status (so that I can travel): I arranged for such an appointment but when they finally called to tell me when it was instead to tell me that there are no appointments available.
US immigration is in the biggest crisis in decades - between rhetoric & admin burden from Trump, covid, and ossified bureaucracy, it is the worst time in history for a tech worker to migrate to the US. Each time a developer works for the US from abroad, the US economy loses up to 50% o salaries in taxes for gov funding, and up to 80% of the reminder in spending within the economy. An argentine developer making 150k f…
US immigration is in the biggest crisis in decades - between rhetoric & admin burden from Trump, covid, and ossified bureaucracy, it is the worst time in history for a tech worker to migrate to the US. Each time a developer works for the US from abroad, the US economy loses up to 50% o salaries in taxes for gov funding, and up to 80% of the reminder in spending within the economy. An argentine developer making 150k f…