H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home

Post by zb1plus » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

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Curious if you have example of racist US visa/immigration policy? There's a lot deserved criticism of current system, but can't think of anything specifically racist.

Green card quotas are based entirely on your country of birth. For example, a UK citizen can obtain a green card far, far faster than an Indian citizen. If a UK citizen and Indian citizen on an H1B visa start the Green Card process at the same time, the UK citizen will obtain permanent residency typically in 9-18 months. For the Indian applicant, who applied on same day with same visa and process, it will likely be o…

Post by kiratp » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

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The current system is in place only because all of the US companies that benefit from cheap labor provided by the likes of Infosys have lobbied for it.

I doubt it is cheaper at all. H-1B applications must pass the prevailing wage test, i.e. applicants cannot earn less than the prevailing wage for their position at the chosen employment location. Companies like Tata, Infosys, WiPro, etc. need to maintain a part of their workforce in the US for certain projects anyway, so they slave away these applicants with draconian contracts. It's not that they pay them significan…

Post by radicaldreamer » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:13 PM UTC

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People are making an error based on the past 20 years of debt binge and capital flooding that took over the world. When the FDI dries up, India is a very weird place. The energy costs will put a number in Asia and Europe in the next decade with dramatic food security challenges. Overall, at macro level, US beats India, but are there positive offshoots in some niches.. perhaps!

The US may beat India in macro level economic factors for quite a while to come, but for a more senior professional with a marketable resume I think it's not too hard to find the positive niches. Honestly the main thing that keeps me from moving back is quality of life concerns with traffic, air quality, and noise pollution.

Post by weatherlite » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC

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In the early 1990s when I came here, the prevailing wisdom was that its categorically better to immigrate to the US from India if you get a chance. India was too far back in the tech space, too much bureaucracy, corruption, red-tape etc etc... In the 2020s, the consensus is quite mixed. A lot of people I personally worked with, who successfully got their visas and green cards, have given it all up and gone straight b…

be careful generalising india because anything that one can claim, the opposite is also true. A major reason countries like the USA and the UK flourish is stability. Stability is not something india has and that is a very difficult thing to put a price on. Indian capital markets are not transparent though that is less of an issue for startups. What should be telling is the number of "Indian" startups that are registe…

Post by Ar-Curunir » Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

radicaldreamer wrote: post #75

naravara wrote: post #44

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The US may beat India in macro level economic factors for quite a while to come, but for a more senior professional with a marketable resume I think it's not too hard to find the positive niches. Honestly the main thing that keeps me from moving back is quality of life concerns with traffic, air quality, and noise pollution.

I think the pollution, weather, water quality, noise, dust, and overall lack of high quality public spaces is a big deal. India is amazing and dynamic in a lot of ways, but there are major intangibles to account for (like how much one values a quiet evening walk in fresh air).