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Since we are doing wishes and grievances, why have PERM at all?
The specificied purpose of PERM is to to fill a position that otherwiswe can't be filled by a US LPR or citizen.. If you need to hide your job postings on an internal physical caulk board in a basement and post them in only physical copies of The Columbus Dispatch then it should be pretty clear you're not following the spirit of the program. If, even after doing that, you then disqualify candidates for pretty fake re…
certain employers can use h1bs to fill specific employment needs really well, and have a ton of experience with both sourcing foreign labour and matching it to work that needs doing in the US.
its doing exactly what the program is looking for, filling a labour quantity at the price employers are looking for.
The US government is optimizing for being able to do some volume of technical work, and the the h1 is intended to make sure that the industry isnt limited by labour availability. its not particularly abusive to do that in an efficient way where the same h1b can serve many businesses
the alternative thats coming is going to be moving a lot of the work to india and instead having the local engineers be liasons for where the real work is happening
people in india havw to wait long periods because the green card system of country limits has no per capita normalization, not because of h1 visa abuse. its sheer volume of good people working for american companies in america, wanting to stay in america. Your anti-abuse metrics will bring it down from 15 years to 13 or 14. not a meaningful difference