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Now, what gets me is that this particular article is to support increasing the number of visas, and remove some of the existing regulations to obtain a visa. There are many, many articles about how America needs to let more foreigners come to work in America at companies on US soil.
What's interesting here is that 90% of the comments of these articles disagree with Americans needing more H-1B visa workers. I have spent a good amount of time looking for a petition or an organization disagreeing with immigration reform (other than BALA)*, and they seem pretty hard to find. Every petition, or organization against H-1B visas seem to have very low traffic/signatures.
(If you know of any other petitions sites please link them)
What's going on? Why are all of these articles getting so many comments against visas, but yet there is a blizzard of of articles being produced supporting increasing the visas and petitions against the visas are not getting any signatures?
In case of H-1B visa, I would like to say that it is not only for IT workers. People from other fields like Chemical Engineers or Agriculture scientist can also be employed on H-1B visa. Outside IT, there is extreme reluctance by American employers to hire foreigners on H-1B visa. Big corporations like Oil companies or civil engineering companies clearly ask in their online applications whether a candidate will need H-1B visa sponsorship and they do not shortlist such candidates for interview. H-1B visa is heavily used in IT field. One reason is that IT companies based in India file these visas from India and then they send candidates on client sites. Third party employment is a rampant practise in IT field to keep costs low.
Outside IT, there is extreme reluctance by American employers to hire foreigners on H-1B visa. Big corporations like Oil companies or civil engineering companies clearly ask in their online applications whether a candidate will need H-1B visa sponsorship and they do not shortlist such candidates for interview.
Do you think it's reluctance, or that the visas are "used up" by the IT industry so quickly?
Do you think it's reluctance, or that the visas are "used up" by the IT industry so quickly?
I would say "reluctance". Based on experience of many close friends. Non IT Companies do not like extra burder of 5-6 K in H-1B visa filing and attorney fees so they avoid foreigners. very rarely you will see any Mechanical Engineer foreigner employed in USA on H-1B visa. But in IT field, it is different. It is Indian IT corporations like TCS, Wipro, Infosys who are bearing the burden of visa fees and they figure it out in their business model and pass the price on to client side. IT industry is so much into third party employment.
They need to get the IT consulting house in order. Too many stories of illegalities like employees not paid if not in a project, employees hired in Iowa at Iowa's prevailing wage but sent to NYC for an indefinite amount of time, employees asked to find themselves a project and give the company a % in exchange for the visa, and plenty other examples.
It's fairly easy to get an H-1B if you work at a national lab or something of that sort. They must have expedited, virtually automatic processing (with no quota?) just for that, since application processing is so fast and success is assured. Mind you, you don't have to be an Einstein to get it. Most of the low level postdocs at the National Labs who do mostly routine lab work (instead of HS educated technicians they replaced) get H-1B without much of a wait.
I work like general contractors for house flippers and come in contact with all races and nations. Indians are totally ungifted for technique. I can't care less for paper that they are engineers, it is no way that they know theirs job. Maybe IT is different but I'm sure that any real industry do not want see them close. As they are laughing stock in construction industry I’m 100% sure it is same in auto industry, pharmaceutical etc. IT is snake oil profession.
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