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Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by cryptoegorophy »

jorgen123 wrote: post #41

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska): > “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it fin…

Not from USA, is there shortage of teachers in USA? Or government pays too little to have local teachers consider such jobs? Seems like a broken system

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by imglorp »

alephnerd wrote: post #48
jorgen123 wrote: post #41

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska): > “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it fin…

And it's not just education - nurses, doctors, and plenty of engineers in the Energy, Mining, and Construction sector are also brought on H1Bs to Alaska. Edit: can't reply > Are they also using traditional incentive methods, like signing bonuses, for domestic prospects Yes. I have a good buddy of mine who is senior management at an ANRC and they will pay 6 figure salaries to non-natives irrespective of citizenship in…

Are they also using traditional incentive methods, like signing bonuses, for domestic prospects?

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by panny »

JCTheDenthog wrote: post #17
variety8675 wrote: post #11

There must be a better way to prevent the consulting firms from abusing this program

Rigorous examinations for English fluency and for competency in their alleged field of expertise would be a good start. I have several H1B coworkers in the US who barely speak intelligible English, and who barely understand normal conversation let alone anything technical. A blatant example of this that I experienced recently being that several of them could not understand that just because a method in C# is asynchro…

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by chupchap »

anon291 wrote: post #29
variety8675 wrote: post #11

There must be a better way to prevent the consulting firms from abusing this program

Only allow American firms to use H1-B. Most of the H1-B abuse is from the Indian 'WITCH' companies. Why foreign firms are allowed to hire foreign workers in the US is beyond me. For training / administration, there should be another visa type which does not confer family benefits and cannot progress to greencard or whatever. BUT... at the end of the day, the solution must be passed by congress. Have we all forgotten…

All of them have US subsidiaries and Cognizant is an US listed company.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by wyager »

jorgen123 wrote: post #41

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska): > “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it fin…

Isn't the entire point of this order to prevent filling low-paying jobs with cheap foreign labor, in order to increase demand for domestic labor? "Rural district schoolteacher" sounds like exactly the kind of job where the H1B program has very low public support

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Post by phendrenad2 »

amazingamazing wrote: post #3

Why can’t Americans do these jobs?

Because in America, the boomers' retirement accounts are partially funded by insane college tuition (through insane college services and textbooks), so college has essentially become a guaranteed debt trap that gives you a lottery ticket to maybe be in the top 1%.

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Post by generj »

naturalmovement wrote: post #40
cguess wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a hiring issue, not a legal one. The US has no official language, and no language tests, so requiring English in law would be dicey to put it mildly. What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet?

EO 14224 designates English as the official language of the US.

Which is clearly illegal.

Congress would need to declare any official language(s). Moreover, by treaty and law (NALA of 1990) obligations to Native American tribes there must be more languages than merely English.

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Post by randyrand »

jorgen123 wrote: post #41

For those not reading the linked article, it was not about tech (although valid discussions here). I had not expected this (this is about rural Alaska): > “In some rural districts, visa teachers make up 50% to nearly 80% of the teaching staff. School districts already invest $6,000 to $12,000 per teacher to recruit and sponsor educators through the H-1B visa process. Adding a $100,000 federal visa fee has made it fin…

There are an excess of teachers in the USA already. It’s a big reason they aren’t paid that well.

No good reason to import them except to pay them even less.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by naturalmovement »

generj wrote: post #57
naturalmovement wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EO 14224 designates English as the official language of the US.

Which is clearly illegal. Congress would need to declare any official language(s). Moreover, by treaty and law (NALA of 1990) obligations to Native American tribes there must be more languages than merely English.

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