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America should be using this crisis to prioritize hiring the world's best medical, engineering, and technical talent.
It's like our last competitive advantage, a way to capture value from America being a desireable place, and we're pissing it away.
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There are over 200k Indians who are stuck on h1b for more than 10 years. Most of which have us born kids. Makes no sense to have a 60 day freeze on h1bs
10 years in the U.S.? I thought the path to citizenship or green card was 5 years, or 7 years at most? This is really not a very fair system.
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Some, but not all, H1B immigrants are highly skilled. Some are fodder for body shops, some are used to avoid having to pay market rate. This behavior has been documented in great detail. I do not believe it unreasonable to take measures to encourage hiring of citizens over importing workers when official unemployment is near 15%, and unofficially, closer to 20%. Your typical tech company is likely to be sophisticated…
What is tech unemployment? Still in the single digits?
This is a backdoor immigration cut, nothing more. COVID is irrelevant. Remember that it's not just new entrants that need H1B processing: it's immigrants currently in the country that need to transfer their visa type (e.g., former students moving from OPT to H1B). What, are they supposed to leave or risk being denied a visa forevermore? Not to mention, they've already paused green card processing and shut down most o…
"The US just doesn't want high-skilled immigrants anymore." This sucks, and it breaks a lot of Americans hearts. My grandparents were the first natural-born Americans of our family and we were raised to understand what that meant. It's of little consequence right now & on any personal level, but America is not a ubiquitous place and the pendulum swings forever.
A more sober look at the reality suggests this myth was... less than true. Nonetheless, I always thought of it as an important ideal.
But you're right that the pendulum swings.
This is a backdoor immigration cut, nothing more. COVID is irrelevant. Remember that it's not just new entrants that need H1B processing: it's immigrants currently in the country that need to transfer their visa type (e.g., former students moving from OPT to H1B). What, are they supposed to leave or risk being denied a visa forevermore? Not to mention, they've already paused green card processing and shut down most o…
> This is a backdoor immigration cut, nothing more. H1B is a non-immigrant visa. > Remember that it's not just new entrants that need H1B processing: it's immigrants currently in the country that need to transfer their visa type. Immigrants already admitted to the US can not get and would not benefit from a non-immigrant visa. Non-immigrants in the US might seek a different non-immigrant visa, but preventing them fro…
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>Sounds like it's still above 0 Because of frictional unemployment, it's neither possible nor desirable for the unemployment rate to reach 0. >which means you should be forced to source local talent before you're permitted to source from outside the country. This is already a requirement; H-1B employers must attest that they can't find an employee domestically and have made a good faith attempt to do so. >It's so str…
> * H-1B employers must attest that they can't find an employee domestically and have made a good faith attempt to do so.* How effectively is this enforced? The arguments against these visa is that companies know how to game this requirement. They specifically write job descriptions in a way that’ll fail to find someone locally, so they can hire cheaper immigrant labor. And cheaper isn’t just lower salaries, they’ll…
I see this all the time with the job descriptions
I think this is quite good in a strange way. Nobody was happy about H1-B. Tech companies were complaining that quotas were too low. Skilled workers complained that this is a ploy to keep costs down, especially in academia. I've once heard an American PhD say 'I am not afraid of competing with very smart Chinese or Indian scientists. But they are making me compete with 10 mediocre Chinese or Indian PhDs and nobody can…
I am one of those Indian PhDs. Many of my friends are. I suppose it's easy for you and your friend (let's not get into an argument about who's stupider) to sip some coffee and say let's blow it up and wait for a few years when you have no personal effect. Meanwhile I'm back in India, and completely lost in my mind on where and how I should proceed with my career. I'm of the view that a country can choose whatever the…