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U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

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Good intentions or not that's exactly the kind of hand wringing I mean. I know plastics become more brittle with age but a modern car seat that's expired is going to be tons safer than a car seat from 2000 (mostly because engineers now have better access to good simulation tools at lower cost). So what if little Jimmy isn't maximally safe. He's still a heck of a lot safer (from an unlikely edge case no less) than he…

"I know plastics become more brittle with age but a modern car seat that's expired is going to be tons safer than a car seat from 2000" How do you know this? Maybe there's technology (crumple areas) that only works when the plastic is relatively new or cushion areas that only are most effective before they degrade, thus making them less safe than good old fashion plastic. We see this with modern cars in their bumper…

There's a little bit of assumption about material design in there but it's obvious from the seat designs that they've come a long way. They're actually designed to fit the form of the body now (which is a big deal for safety). Old seats were little more than booster seats with integrated seat belts. It's like the difference between a 60s bucket seat and a modern racing bucket seat.

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if you have 13 years experience and don't even have a bachelor's degree, you are not screwed, just stay where you are, unless you are as good as Linus T, just stay where you are, we have lots of talents with > 13years experience without a degree here in the US already :-)

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Qualified supply is nowhere close to matching demand. Ask anyone that has to do recruiting for their teams. Source: personal experience

Talking about demand exceeding supply is somewhat nonsensical without reference to a price. What you're saying is "at the price my company is willing to pay, we're unable to find qualified candidates." That means you can either pay more to attract qualified candidates, or do without. Alternatively, we can raise the supply curve, which has the affect of lowering wages, and might allow your company to attract talent wi…

I don't know which market you are hiring in, but for jobs which pay well into 300K+ (many multiples of median household income across the country), where engineers are pampered with free meals and massages, there are shortages in qualified supply.

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H-4 holders (spouses of H-1B, for the uninitiated) should be allowed to work. That they don't is inhuman and de facto hurts women, since the overwhelming majority of H-1B holders (at least in the Valley) are men. It's forcing women into a stay-at-home role as if it were the 50s. It's especially hard for H-4s because they are newcomers to the USA who may not have local friends or family. My wife went through it for a…

It is unfortunate that the feminist movement in SV, who are very vocal about the plight of women in the tech workforce, have been silent about the current administration's attempts to revoke H4-EAD.

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That's super interesting, I didn't know that about hourly wages. I tend to think of income gaining from 1950 to 1990 and flattening from the mid 1990s to now. Though it does look like total compensation (adding in benefits) did actually increase recently, they don't have anything for back to 1960. So maybe the story is that wages stayed flat, but benefits accounted for most of the income increase. Not an economist so…

>Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent. Even after the economy has fully adjusted, those skill groups that received the most immigrants will still offer lower pay relative to those that received fewer immigrants. >Immigration redistributes wealth from those who comp…

I don’t believe jobs are finite. I believe skilled immigrants improve competitiveness and create jobs across broad swaths of the economy, some even start very successful businesses. Many Fortune 500 founders were immigrants, and locking them out may have cost the country many hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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You can't get citizenship by giving birth in the US. And asylum is a special case, it's not really a normal immigration route.

>And asylum is a special case, it's not really a normal immigration route. If it works it's normal. Just in a different sense.

No, it's not in any sense. You're assuming they're not claiming asylum legitimately.

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Could you provide a cost breakdown of the first 10 years of raising a child in, say, SV or NY? I can't follow your thinking here at all. Childcare, from what I hear is immensely expensive, and after a certain age, you need a bigger home. Conversely, staying without kids means you don't spend on any of those things. What have I missed?

You don't "need" a bigger home. You can perfectly have 2 children in a 900sqft 3 bedroom appartment.

But you don't need a 3 bedroom appartment for 2 people.

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This is false. Once you're past a certain point in the GC process, you will renew your status each year.

But at that point you are approved for a GC and are just waiting for the country quota.

Can still fail the i485 interview
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