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USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

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Post by meragrin »

vermontdevil wrote: post #135

Yet Trump's own Mar-a-Lago is abusing H-2B to obtain 70 foreign workers: From the article: "It’s unclear whether the Trump Organization had made an extra effort to try to fill the jobs. In July, the club placed an ad on Page C8 of the Palm Beach Post: “3 mos recent & verifiable exp in fine dining/country club,” the ad said. “No tips,” Fahrenthold reported. The ad, which ran twice, gave no email address, mailing addre…

The Palm Beach Post posted on their blog about three ads for Mar-a-Lago. The three ads were published on July 27th and all have an address at the end with a job number to reference. The server ad at the bottom seems to be the one they are referring to.

http://realtime.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2017/08/07/want-a-sea...

Re: USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

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Post by dominotw »

bduerst wrote: post #364
dominotw wrote: post #347

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In theory performance performance packages can be $0? makes no sense to approve h1b based on performance packages. Also, LinkedIn does give out performance bonuses.

You can lookup the Juniper bonus packages on OFLC if you want (it's what this website data is, but more info). I just checked for sunnyvale engineers making 68k and their bonuses go up to 250k.

Thats besides the point. It doesn't matter what the actual bonuses are , point I was trying to make is that it doesn't make sense to approve H1B based on something uncertain like bonuses.

Are you suggesting uscis " can lookup the Juniper bonus packages on OFLC " before approving h1b ?

Re: USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

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Post by vilmosi »

smsm42 wrote: post #301
vilmosi wrote: post #282

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Oh come on, every study puts the US in a mediocre position in education within the OECD. That's not a debate.

What is "position in education"? I notice that's the third person making claims without backing them up or even substantiating them enough to be verifyable ("US school sucks" is not verifyable, "US schools ranked number N according to metric M published by organization O" is). I don't know where these people are educated so not sure whether I can take it as anecdotal evidence to either side... Also protip: "this is n…

When I say it's not a debate, I don't say that to "win a debate". I mean it in a "debating the flat earth hypothesis is not a debate" sense.

There's many studies about this, it's not a controversial topic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_...

Re: USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications

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Post by sumitgt »

refurb wrote: post #370
hjlkashd wrote: post #359

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Yes, but if you lose your job for any reason, you have to leave the country in a matter of days (I think you have 30 days, it might be a little more). So, sell your house, all your belongings, take the kids out of school, move all investments... uproot your whole life in 2 months, maybe 1 month. That's not an easy thing to do, especially with children. It's not fair to my family - the kids would hate moving from the…

Sorry if I'm being overly detailed, but if you lose your job when in the later stages of a green card there is portability to a new employer, so there are options. However, I do agree the uncertainty can be stressful. I went through a layoff when on H1B and it's not fun!

Yes, although there is some portability, you still have to apply, interview and get a job within 30 days. That's not feasible, and doesn't give you enough room to find a good job and negotiate salary from a point of strength.

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Post by calvinbhai »

turkishgetup wrote: post #339
xster wrote: post #325

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Jesus, I didn't know there was such a huge disparity between India and China

The reason is that U.S. Immigration laws only allocate 14% of annual quota to employment-based (EB) petition. The majority go to family-based (FB) petitions. Indian have a much higher EB/FB ratios, whereas Chinese have many more FB petitioners, e.g. cross-ethnicity marriages. Chinese also have one more eligible category than Indians---green card for asylees. Ethnicities/nationalities like Mexicans have negligible ski…

So very true!

A point to be noted, is that the arbitrary per country cap for EB green cards, was added in the last 30 years, to surreptitiously add a subtle anti-Asian bias, to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants entering US. Looks like Indian and Philippine citizens are caught in the cross fire now.

If you speak to high skilled immigrants in US who understand the situation, you'll see them being equally highly frustrated with the Democrats and the Republicans, and their respective supporters. Everything seems to be so focussed on DACA and illegal immigrants, that the legal ones are left in limbo.

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Post by calvinbhai »

mavelikara wrote: post #335
calvinbhai wrote: post #306

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You'll never see the tech titans ask for this option, while they are busy portraying themselves as pro-immigrant :)

Well, to be fair, they do cry lots of tears for every other form of immigration except skilled one.

Well, everyone including darling tech giants in California wants to milk the PR opportunities like homelessness, high cost of living, immigrants in limbo status etc.

Sadly, good numbner of people are naive enough to not see past the fracas.

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Post by learc83 »

pnutjam wrote: post #380
learc83 wrote: post #73

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>1 the US is lagging far behind every developed nation in education It's not as a whole. Parts of it are, Education here is local, and there are states the size of Finland that compare with Finland in education outcomes. >2 and higher education in the US is prohibitively expensive compared to other developed nations Income based repayment ensures that you will never pay more than 10% of your disposable income (income…

The "poverty line" is a joke. It's pegged to food when the largest expenses for most families are housing and medical care. I know I probably spend about the same on groceries as I spend on health insurance, without taking into account what my employer pays, deductibles, etc. I doubt many families have 10% of income to spare.

It's 1.5x the poverty level. That's about $37k for a family of 4.

>I doubt many families have 10% of income to spare.

For a family of 4, it's 10% of income over $37k, not 10% of income.

If that family made the median household income of $59k, they'd be paying about $180 a month in loan repayments.

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Post by learc83 »

komali2 wrote: post #298
learc83 wrote: post #106

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>But the average is mediocre at best. This just isn't true at all. Average state schools that are affordable to the vast majority of students through income based student loan repayments are far better than mediocre. The US has 1/3 of the top 500 ranked colleges in the world, and nearly 1/4 of the top 5000 . http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/54 There's a reason that international students flock to even low ranked s…

This is my entire point - our schools are filling up with non-American students .

In 2015 they made up 4.8% of all undergraduate students.

I wouldn't say that is filling up.

http://graphics.wsj.com/international-students/

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Post by learc83 »

vostok wrote: post #204
learc83 wrote: post #139

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Sorry, you said "so long as you pay over a certain amount", so I just took the comment at face value. >if you make more than a certain amount not if you invest over a certain amount. I don't know any developed countries with that system. Do you?

Yes I've received job offers in developed countries under such schemes. There might have technically been other minimal requirements like knowing English or the local language, but most people who fulfill the pay requirements will fulfill the minor requirements too if applicable.

Do those minor requirements include working in specific industries, and are contingent on specific types of job offers?

If so that's not the same as an income requirement at all.

If not, I'd like a list of them because that's very interesting.

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Post by learc83 »

jopsen wrote: post #264
neeleshs wrote: post #194

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Out of curiosity, which are these countries?

Denmark grants VISA if you find a job making > 62k USD per year. OR you work in an industry on the "positive list" which includes management, doctors, research, and tech jobs in general. I'm sure lots of countries have similar rules.

Doesn't Denmark have all kinds of rules that make it very hard for a foreigner to find an approved job in the first place though?

They have to demonstrate that they can't find a citizen to do the job etc...?

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