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When do they reach out to people if their application has been selected in the lottery or not?
- It would alleviate (though probably not solve) the downward pressure on salaries.
- It would ensure that companies are well motivated to find domestic workers since they would, theoretically, be cheaper.
- It would ensure that H-1B's go to the people who would add the most value to the economy (or else the company would be less competitive due to overpaying).
- It would favor the most talented foreigners rather than putting them in a random lottery with new grads.
- It would allocate the H-1B's to the companies that need them most (since they're offering the most money)
- It would maximize the future tax take of the US government (maximum income => maximum taxes paid)
Ironically, this might have prevented me from getting my own H-1B as I got it fairly early in my career.
Can someone translate to human language?
Now, thanks to low quotas, and some rather unsavory consultancy companies, the H1-B program has now become useless for this purpose, as you have less than a 50/50 chance of getting an H1-B approved, just due to quotas. So while an honest company that wants to hire a good developer will not be OK with the delays and the low percentages of hiring someone in those conditions, a mill that interviews thousands of people and will place them in third party customers as consultants will gladly just keep flooding the market with applicants that probably will not get anywhere.
TL;DR The H1-B program used to be defensible, and maybe useful. The way it works now, it only works for companies who abuse it.
I'm not trying to scam the U.S., or cheat Americans out of a job, and my company is paying me the same amount as the americans who started at the same time as me. Instead, I want to be an American, and be a part of this country. Despite this, I am now at risk of being deported if I don't get the visa, and having to leave behind my whole life here, and my girlfriend here who I intend to spend the rest of my life with.
The worst part about this is that I am completely powerless, and at the whim of chance.
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OK and why is this the top of HN? Because of the number of applications? The number of applications is slightly higher than last year, but still I fail to understand why it is on the top, because this same thing was happening for the last 4+ years. My application was picked up in the year 2013, so I have been following both HN and the USCIS at that time. Never saw it make top of HN.
This is the process I went throught back in 2005 to get a job in IT after graduating in Business in Poland: 1. Got a position with an Indian company that promised a job after paid training ($5k) 2. After 3-month long training they totally and completely faked my resume. I.e. included 5-years experience, fake credentials, fake references. 3. Got me a job with large, large bank. 4. Got half my salary for 6-months. 5. A…
Why this is important: Because if a tech company wants to hire a foreigner, the visa process (regardless of skill^1) is basically worse than a coin toss. Which means companies have a much more limited pool of applicants. And let's be real, this country doesn't have nearly enough STEM professionals to meet demand. 1)Exceptions: Master's degree (another lottery), extraordinary ability (pretty tough).
... at current salaries.