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Americans out of work does not mean work force for niche positions.
I'd like to know what you consider "niche" positions ... for example are they programmers, system analysts, IT recruiters, etc ? There are plenty of H-1B abusers in each of those categories that don't belong here when Americans are available for those "niche" positions. The fraud is rampant ...
Totally untrue ... a vast number of Americans understand the concept of legal non-immigrants but think the programs should be abolished when there are Americans out of work.
I highly doubt it, especially when most Americans think anyone can become a U.S. citizen by filling out a couple of forms, paying a fee, waiting in line, and taking the citizenship test. Most people who aren't in the IT industry have never heard of terms like "H1-B", "labor certification", and "priority date"
The article is taking advantage of the fact that the vast majority of Americans think foreigners in the U.S. are either legal immigrants or illegal immigrants. They lack the concept of legal non-immigrants.
Be fair, even the US govt has trouble with the concept sometimes. Like that incoming passenger form which asks for your place of residence, only it doesn't really want that. The USCIS form asks where you live (which is right - you live in the US, you are not a resident), the customs form asks for your place of residence, which is not the US if you're not on a resident visa (green card).
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Originally Posted by Threestep
Assuming you are talking about J1. His J1 does not allow her to work. She can apply for EAD as J2. Is it worth the fee, the wait and will she find a job for the few remaining weeks?
Obviously no serious job is going to take on the EAD renewal nightmare, but she would be able to work at something for a large part of each year. Do they still have the rule that says any delay over 90 days and you get an automatic renewal?
Obviously no serious job is going to take on the EAD renewal nightmare, but she would be able to work at something for a large part of each year. Do they still have the rule that says any delay over 90 days and you get an automatic renewal?
EAD has nothing to do with employer. No, there is no automatic renewal.
No sympathy here. Her husband is displacing an American worker and she didn't even understand the terms of her visa? She's an idiot.
US government websites can be confusing but if you can read English at a high school level, you should be able to figure it out with careful study. I have a bachelor's degree and successfully completed a green card application (without using a lawyer) for my then-husband. It was approved. It wasn't difficult at all. It just took a while and required lots of accompanying documentation which took a while to assemble, but the actual application itself wasn't hard to understand. Nor were the terms of the visa or any of the rules we had to follow.
If you can't understand the terms of your visa, you don't really deserve to be here anyway.
the visa she has is not of a permanent resident.... she's here temporarily and as companion of her spouse who is here working just for a specific length of time before he goes back home.
She couldn't be bothered to take 20 seconds to open a browser, type "H4 visa" on google and read the first link where it clearly states that "H-4 visa holders are not eligible to get a Social Security Number and cannot be employed"?
Either she's lazy and dumb or she's lying.
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