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A tax paying non citizen is a constituent
How can a non citizen pay taxes?
The US is EXTREMELY happy to collect taxes from people around the world and to call them resident aliens for tax purposes if they stay in the country for more than half a year or a given combination of days in the preceding 4-5 years.
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Having some level of diversity from other countries doesn’t sound like a bad idea. No. H1B is a skills based visa and not diversity/family based. The only thing that should matter are the skills and not the country they come from. Steps should absolutely be taken to ensure the system can't be gamed and that only well qualified applicants get selected.
Enforcing diversity is a way to prevent gaming. If the only thing that should matter is skills, it wouldn't make sense in any realistic scenario that 75% of H1Bs are coming from a country with 15% of the population.
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A tax paying non citizen is a constituent
How can a non citizen pay taxes?
Of course, being a US citizen it's a little bit different, you have to declare and sometimes pay the taxes in different countries.
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Having some level of diversity from other countries doesn’t sound like a bad idea. No. H1B is a skills based visa and not diversity/family based. The only thing that should matter are the skills and not the country they come from. Steps should absolutely be taken to ensure the system can't be gamed and that only well qualified applicants get selected.
Enforcing diversity is a way to prevent gaming. If the only thing that should matter is skills, it wouldn't make sense in any realistic scenario that 75% of H1Bs are coming from a country with 15% of the population.
It would if that's where most of the people with both skills and the view that the US is a better place to sell them than where they currently live are.
Skills being the only thing that matter on the US side doesn't stop other factors from mattering on the other side.
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How can a non citizen pay taxes?
Is this a joke? The US is EXTREMELY happy to collect taxes from people around the world and to call them resident aliens for tax purposes if they stay in the country for more than half a year or a given combination of days in the preceding 4-5 years.
Auction, auction, auction - but not with fees, with salaries. Set a cap on number of entrants, and then "auction" the slots. Adjust the cap on entrants annually. No showing of specific market need required, or educational background of the applicant. Just criminal background and health checks on the applicant. The bid is the (gross) pay of the role with a minimum commit of 36 months. Winning bids are paid to the empl…
This is how labor was brought in from Africa not too long ago. I agree a market solution is probably the least unfair one. But, as a country, America should not make the same past, historical mistakes.
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> The current administration tried using executive action and regulatory approaches to fulfil their agenda and both keep getting struck down in courts. The new upward revision in wage levels are also expected to have the same fate. There is simply very little regulatory leeway on H1B visas since they are encoded in law. That’s not accurate. The original law in the 1960s was designed to be very different, and one of t…
Immigration laws were passed and signed even after 1960s. Since I only focused on H1B in my original comment I will only seek to address that point. H1B changes were not implemented by administrative fiat. The AC21 act was passed to provide unlimited H1B extensions with an approved employment-based immigration application. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
Under the 1990 dual intent system, you basically say “for now I want to just work temporarily, but if a spot opens up I might be interested in staying.” In theory, the government should be able to say: “okay, well, no green cards for the foreseeable future” and H1-Bs would say “okay, I’ll wait for a spot to open up” or “okay, I’ll go home.”
But of course that’s not what happens: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/coronavirus-t.... People flip out because they (for obvious reasons) view the H1-B as the first step to a more or less guaranteed path to permanent residency and citizenship.
The current immigration system is a complete clusterf—-ck. It’s not fair to voters, who have the right to have an immigration policy that actually reflects what Congress enacted. It’s also not fair to “guest workers” who get stuck in a precarious limbo.
Auction, auction, auction - but not with fees, with salaries. Set a cap on number of entrants, and then "auction" the slots. Adjust the cap on entrants annually. No showing of specific market need required, or educational background of the applicant. Just criminal background and health checks on the applicant. The bid is the (gross) pay of the role with a minimum commit of 36 months. Winning bids are paid to the empl…
I have a startup, 4 in US, 10 in India - top tier engineers. I just hired my first H1B - while we pay well - bidding and salary escrow will just favor the big 5 - they are starving startups of talent in bay area any way. Investors want me to get traction with $2M, our needed engineers are at $600-$800k comp (300 base) how do I make it work? Regulation has unintended consequences. As an example trying to save retails…
Are you admitting that you want to hire H1B in order to find cheaper people?
If you can't find any local people to employ, then either you put your hand in your pocket to afford international or you can't afford to do business and your business model is broken.
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Is this a joke? The US is EXTREMELY happy to collect taxes from people around the world and to call them resident aliens for tax purposes if they stay in the country for more than half a year or a given combination of days in the preceding 4-5 years.
Why aren't they kicked out? Why do people need green cards if they can stay?