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Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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It should increase with time. 90 days if you are let go during your first year of working in the country. 180 days if you have been working in the country for more than a year. 365 days if you have been working in the country for more than three years.

"It should increase with time." Why is that?

to avoid hacking

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #14

All this proves how broken the US education is. I have worked with many Indian programmers over the years. I only ran into a very small amount who were not brilliant, but were average. The rest where brilliant, and a few I learned some cool tricks from. For young Americans, most were good but none approached the level of smarts most of the Indians I worked with. The US should send observers over to India and study th…

The Indian education system is spectacularly bad. Indian programmers do well despite the education system, not because of it.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should increase with time. 90 days if you are let go during your first year of working in the country. 180 days if you have been working in the country for more than a year. 365 days if you have been working in the country for more than three years.

"It should increase with time." Why is that?

It incentivizes people to invest more. If you know that even after 4 years of time you are still only 60 days away from deportation you likely won't put down as much of an investment in the country.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #14

All this proves how broken the US education is. I have worked with many Indian programmers over the years. I only ran into a very small amount who were not brilliant, but were average. The rest where brilliant, and a few I learned some cool tricks from. For young Americans, most were good but none approached the level of smarts most of the Indians I worked with. The US should send observers over to India and study th…

You are seeing the best of the best who come over here and or have families with money to support it.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #16
post #14

All this proves how broken the US education is. I have worked with many Indian programmers over the years. I only ran into a very small amount who were not brilliant, but were average. The rest where brilliant, and a few I learned some cool tricks from. For young Americans, most were good but none approached the level of smarts most of the Indians I worked with. The US should send observers over to India and study th…

The secret is: you see Indians in the US after the huge gruesome filter

For real, as a person who had to sift through entry-level candidates for menial off-shore positions on occasion, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys holds true in pretty much any country

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #6

I sometimes wonder what the "right amount of time" for this would be. Surely 30 days is nowhere near enough. 60 days also feels like too little. 90 days is the typical tourist visa duration; that seems more reasonable as a minimum duration to me. Does it need to be 180 days? 364? I just don't know, but 60 seems too low.

It should be extremely relaxed and extend if there is a little bit of evidence that work is being pursued. It's expensive to live without working, people aren't going to do it on a lark.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should increase with time. 90 days if you are let go during your first year of working in the country. 180 days if you have been working in the country for more than a year. 365 days if you have been working in the country for more than three years.

"It should increase with time." Why is that?

The longer you've been in a place the more established you'll be there. You'll have built relationships, you might own a home, you might have made large purchases that aren't easy to move like a car... etc.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #11

> It was also used by American tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, to hire top talent. Do these^ companies hire foreigners via H1B? I don't know if this is true, but I've heard — because of the lottery/uncertainty involved — that these companies instead park foreigners who they want to hire in their offices in other countries (such as Canada/Europe) for a while and then bring them in…

Definitely true. The Vancouver offices exist basically for that. But then, a lot of people give up on coming to the US and stay in Canada permanently.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

#29
post #14

All this proves how broken the US education is. I have worked with many Indian programmers over the years. I only ran into a very small amount who were not brilliant, but were average. The rest where brilliant, and a few I learned some cool tricks from. For young Americans, most were good but none approached the level of smarts most of the Indians I worked with. The US should send observers over to India and study th…

1. start with 1 billion people

2. of the smartest and most motivated people, consider those who are interested in moving to the US

3. allow a tiny percentage of these to do so

This is going to result in you encountering near-uniform brilliant people out of the starting population of 1 billion

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #6

I sometimes wonder what the "right amount of time" for this would be. Surely 30 days is nowhere near enough. 60 days also feels like too little. 90 days is the typical tourist visa duration; that seems more reasonable as a minimum duration to me. Does it need to be 180 days? 364? I just don't know, but 60 seems too low.

90 days seems more reasonable.

When it's higher, this deliberately sets a higher bar for foreigners.

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