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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 NoMoreNicksLeft »

bijowo1676 wrote: post #120
naturalmovement wrote: post #106

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Skills which, with very few exceptions, are conducted in English.

You don’t need to be Shakespeare to do specialized job that’s first Second most visa applicants already get tested on their English skill when they apply for Visa, for example, universities require English proficiency for F1 visa using GRE exam And why do you think you are better than an employer in assessing required English proficiency of an employee

>for example, universities require English proficiency for F1 visa using GRE exam

Why would the universities fail them on these exams, when it would mean losing out on that sweet, sweet tuition money?

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Post by trelane »

pastel8739 wrote: post #104
nemomarx wrote: post #63

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Teacher pay is low, but it also requires certification and a degree. And in exchange it will be relatively stressful and lacking in prestige.

And long hours!

My favorite teacher strike was when the teachers stopped doing work when they weren't being paid. The district quickly caved.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by bijowo1676 »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #151
bijowo1676 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t need to be Shakespeare to do specialized job that’s first Second most visa applicants already get tested on their English skill when they apply for Visa, for example, universities require English proficiency for F1 visa using GRE exam And why do you think you are better than an employer in assessing required English proficiency of an employee

>for example, universities require English proficiency for F1 visa using GRE exam Why would the universities fail them on these exams, when it would mean losing out on that sweet, sweet tuition money?

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by bitmasher9 »

ericmay wrote: post #61
bitmasher9 wrote: post #49

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I think forcing this comparison shows a lack of empathy for how compromised of a position the H1B really is. If I lose my job I have unemployment insurance, cobra benefits, personal savings, and I don’t require another employer to sponsor my visa. If I lose my job the most likely outcome is I find another one after searching a few months. If someone on an H1B visa loses their job the most likely outcome is they are f…

Well, truthfully I don't really care all that much about it any more than I do any other problems that people generally experience. It's even more tragic that someone has an H1B means other folks don't - aren't their lives even worse for not having the opportunity that someone else does? Can the H1B visa holder even compete with the person denied the H1B? The reason I wrote this comment is because the OP itself decid…

Yeah, sounds like your situation is insecure too. That really sucks.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by [deleted] »

JCTheDenthog wrote: post #13
amazingamazing wrote: post #3

Why can’t Americans do these jobs?

They can, which is why many companies do the bare minimum malicious compliance to claim thet they attempted to hire Americans for these jobs. Things like ads in the local newspaper that 99% of qualified Americans will never see: https://www.newsweek.com/h1b-job-ads-green-cards-targeted-im...

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by allarm »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #146
nsagent wrote: post #142

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Having lived in bumblefuck Alaska for a year, I can honestly say that they do in fact pay more, but it's also super expensive to live in rural Alaska. Likely a bigger issue is that very few people want to live in a town of 3000 people or less that isn't connected to the interstate road system. Money can only do so much to fix that.

Some people live in a pressurized bubble for a month for saturation diving. If the price is right you can get someone to do almost anything.

It doesn't matter how much money you have if you can't spend it.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by dmix »

esalman wrote: post #123
randyrand wrote: post #58

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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 .

I hear this argument all the time. There's an excess of this, there's an excess of that. Seems it only comes from people who are not directly involved in hiring of such roles. We hired for an analyst role few months ago in the bay area and there was no qualified American applicants. My wife is in pavement consultancy and they hardly ever find qualified Americans for pavement design jobs.

People can’t seem to separate the issue of exploitation of H1B by (mostly Indian) consultancy mills to lower wages and bypass normal immigration vs the legitimate value of specialized skilled visas. You can fix one without killing the other.

It’s plausible Education might be one of the industries that gets exploited as they have no caps in the lottery like other H1 visas categories such as tech or doctors. But I don’t know enough about education visas personally.

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Post by WorkerBee28474 »

ttul wrote: post #76

There is actually a sensible way to do recruit foreign workers to fill jobs that locals for some reason can't fill, and it's just a few miles up north... Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is not limited by annual caps or lotteries. You just apply (as a company) by filling in a few simple forms and posting a job in the "Canada Job Bank" for a period of time to demonstrate that you genuinely searched for…

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a horrible program that has been flagrantly abused for years to the detriment of Canadians. There's record high youth unemployment yet every Tim Hortons is filled with Indians.

Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by dmix »

cguess wrote: post #110
JCTheDenthog wrote: post #35

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>What if I'm hiring someone specifically to work at a Spanish language news outlet? Having actually worked at a Spanish language news outlet before (1 of 4 tv and radio stations in the office I was doing IT help desk work in), I can tell you that every single employee spoke English somewhere on the level of very good to near native fluency. As it turns out, knowing English (or the native language of whatever country…

Again, this is a hiring issue, not a legal one. You want to make it against the law for your boss to hire bad managers?

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Re: Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

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Post by anon291 »

chupchap wrote: post #54
anon291 wrote: post #29

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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.

I mean ... Come on we know what's really going on here.
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