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Not for Rashi Bhatnagar. She wants to open a home-goods business and says she has an "entrepreneurial spirit." But even though she's been legally living in the United States for almost six years, that's only a pipe dream.
"Bhatnagar, 30, moved from India, after her husband's IT job sent him to Dallas. She admits they didn't fully understood (sic) that U.S. immigration policies meant she'd be unable to work and they'd be living off just one salary."
A Masters in Communication and does not do basic due diligence when moving to a different country/culture. I have yet to meet an Indian IT person who is not extremely familiar with US immigration law.
Not for Rashi Bhatnagar. She wants to open a home-goods business and says she has an "entrepreneurial spirit." But even though she's been legally living in the United States for almost six years, that's only a pipe dream.
These are not really immigrants.
They are temporary in US - for a specific reason: her husband's job. When his visa expires they go back to India.
As for what the previous poster wrote: if you have disagreements, they are with US government (and its immigration policies), not with these individuals, who abide by the law.
Not for Rashi Bhatnagar. She wants to open a home-goods business and says she has an "entrepreneurial spirit." But even though she's been legally living in the United States for almost six years, that's only a pipe dream.
She is a legal NON-IMMIGRANT with intent to immigrate. It sucks, but she has to wait her turn in line. And the line only gets longer.
It's not just the US immigration policy which contributes to the problem, it's the people from her own country of origin who insist on only hiring (barely qualified or unqualified) people from the home country, increasing the backlog.
Unlike a lot of others, I don't feel the U.S. should increase it's visa allocation numbers. If she wants to wait less time, then she should talk to her own government and have them crack down on the diploma mills which allow the bogus H1B people to enter the U.S. and work for former bogus H1B's who obtained residency and citizenship.
The Indians have done this to themselves. Those who obtained their green cards on (what I consider to be) fraud, now have become citizens who have raised their children in the U.S. They taught them to go to college and become the best of the best in the U.S. Now their children have graduated in the requisite field (STEM) and find that they are only able to obtain a job which pays 40k a year instead of the 80k they thought because now they themselves are competing with their cousins in India (awaiting in the sibling of a citizen list) who are in the U.S. with a diploma mill certificate working for 40k a year as an H1B (and also on this list waiting for an employment based card).
Does this mean the U.S. needs immigration reform?
Sure it does.
But to me, reform means something other than increasing H1B allocations and ignoring enforcement provisions.
She is a legal NON-IMMIGRANT with intent to immigrate. It sucks, but she has to wait her turn in line. And the line only gets longer.
It's not just the US immigration policy which contributes to the problem, it's the people from her own country of origin who insist on only hiring (barely qualified or unqualified) people from the home country, increasing the backlog.
Unlike a lot of others, I don't feel the U.S. should increase it's visa allocation numbers. If she wants to wait less time, then she should talk to her own government and have them crack down on the diploma mills which allow the bogus H1B people to enter the U.S. and work for former bogus H1B's who obtained residency and citizenship.
The Indians have done this to themselves. Those who obtained their green cards on (what I consider to be) fraud, now have become citizens who have raised their children in the U.S. They taught them to go to college and become the best of the best in the U.S. Now their children have graduated in the requisite field (STEM) and find that they are only able to obtain a job which pays 40k a year instead of the 80k they thought because now they themselves are competing with their cousins in India (awaiting in the sibling of a citizen list) who are in the U.S. with a diploma mill certificate working for 40k a year as an H1B (and also on this list waiting for an employment based card).
Does this mean the U.S. needs immigration reform?
Sure it does.
But to me, reform means something other than increasing H1B allocations and ignoring enforcement provisions.
Great post - it's nice to see someone with a clear, unmuddied picture of the situation. Immigration needs to be suspended until all Americans who want jobs have them and the H-1B program suspended indefinitely.
These are not really immigrants.
They are temporary in US - for a specific reason: her husband's job. When his visa expires they go back to India.
As for what the previous poster wrote: if you have disagreements, they are with US government (and its immigration policies), not with these individuals, who abide by the law.
Exactly; they are not considered permanent residents. He is a foreign worker with a work exception visa.
She is not an immigrant. She is a non-immigrant. She does not have a green card.
Thus she is not allowed to work.
Case closed.
It does not take a Green Card to be legally able to work.
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