I wish they could also provide green card inventory in similar fashion. But that will help us know how many green cards are being wasted each year.
How do you think that green cards are wasted?
H-1B Employer Data Hub
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#12Some initial analysis-
Of the top 20 employers, the average approval rate was 76%. Most of the employers are outsourcing subcontractors or accounting firms. But there were five employers in the top 20 with 90%+ approval rates: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
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#13I like that they have the raw data at https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-da...
Why is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
Looks like there was a reduction, although the 2018 data seems like it cuts off funny.
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#14I like that they have the raw data at https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-studies/h-1b-employer-da...
Why is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
Speaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes.
Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administration's policies on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, not how the administration is dragging their feet on _all_ immigration processes.
It's just not worth it to sponsor an H-1B, especially if you're a medium/small sized company. Costs too much time and money.
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#15Also related: https://h1bdata.info/index.php
This site just gives LCA data. For every H1-B and employment based I-140, companies need to submit LCAs. But no data on "initial/continuing approval/denial".
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
Speaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes. Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administration's policies on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, not how the administration is dragging their feet on _all_ immigration processes. It's just not worth it to sponsor an H-…
USCIS is delaying every immigration application--not just H1b stuff. Even though there is no explicit policy to delay applications, I heard officers are told to delay. Since there is no backlash, it is going to be like that for a while.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
Speaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes. Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administration's policies on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, not how the administration is dragging their feet on _all_ immigration processes. It's just not worth it to sponsor an H-…
For this reason it's critically important to push back when this administration claims to only care about illegality.
They are slow walking all immigrants, focusing the brunt of their enforcement activity on black and brown folks, up to and including turning people away from self-deportation processes if they present as white.
It is a coordinated effort to delay demographic shifts.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the file size of the 2018 data much smaller compared to the other full years? Are there that many fewer H-1Bs?
Speaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes. Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administration's policies on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, not how the administration is dragging their feet on _all_ immigration processes. It's just not worth it to sponsor an H-…
I am a front-end developer on an H1 visa. There is a reason for the slowdown. A lot of companies, Indian IT or consultancy firms in the US are abusing the H1 visa process. They use lawyers and high sounding words to make roles such as functional/manual tester or other non-critical non-STEM roles to sound as technical STEM based roles. IMHO these roles can be easily done by American locals without STEM or technical background, if they have an opportunity. A bit of process and business training is enough. Whether they do get into such roles or not is a different ball game altogether. But the premise of H1 is to provide visa for people with skills that the American market doesn't have. This process is easy to abuse because people in the administration are not tech savvy. Until people from tech in the US decide to take part in governance, there is not much that can be done besides slowing the process a bit so that current people who work at USCIS have the time to gauge applications in a fair way.
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#19I wish they could also provide green card inventory in similar fashion. But that will help us know how many green cards are being wasted each year.
What do you mean by 'wasted'?
Probably something like this: http://www.entrylaw.com/blog/thousands-more-wasted-visas
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#20is it along the same line as "shops owned by Jews" of the 1930's?