Senate proposes "market-based" H1-B work visa proposal (employment, legal)
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Led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, five Republicans and five Democrats rolled out the Immigration Innovation Act on Tuesday to lift the annual quota of H-1B visas for those workers from 65,000 to 115,000. That new cap would grow each year if demand outstrips supply, potentially up to 300,000 visas annually.
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Great to see a bipartisan group of politicians getting their act together on this.
I agree. Our immigration system is heavily biased in favor of family immigration, and this is where the poor, low skilled immigrants legally make their headway into the US. Family visas need an extremely small cap, with most places allocated to developed nations. As for the H and L visas, if you got very good skills, at least a bachelor's degree (or better yet, a master's or Ph.D or professional degree) then by all means come on over. We need to cancel our refugee settlement program. The ONLY countries that should be eligible for refugee status are Venezuela and Cuba. There is absolutely no reason why, starting under Clinton, we have to take in refugees from halfway across the world, like form Somalia when the UN says you only need to accept refugees that are from countries that are near you. Why is the US purposely settling refugees in non-traditional centers of immigration is also beyond me (Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, are you kidding me?)
Yes - people skilled in tech should be given preference as they launch a lot of startups.
In my industry, you get a bunch of Indian IT staffing companies that bill the client the full rate and the employee gets less than a third of the rate. They are slaves to their sponsors .
The 911 hijackers were here on foreign visas that had expired. Yes that program is working great. Stupid gdam idiot senators. Instead of fixing it they pile on.
The 911 hijackers were here on foreign visas that had expired. Yes that program is working great. Stupid gdam idiot senators. Instead of fixing it they pile on.
The name of one of the security guards at my office was in the notebook of one of the 9/11 hijackers car that was left in the parking lot in NewYork.
That is not going to help Americans. These guys are just taking jobs that Americans can do. It's bad enough that they decided to ship out a bunch of jobs to the exact places where we are getting the bulk of H1-b folks. Those guys aren't coming here to create startups. They are here to do jobs for less. legally.
Yes - people skilled in tech should be given preference as they launch a lot of startups.
I doubt people on H1-Bs do, what with their right to residence being 100% tied to employment. If they quit their job to start out on their own, they're in visa violation.
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Originally Posted by KUchief25
The 911 hijackers were here on foreign visas that had expired. Yes that program is working great. Stupid gdam idiot senators. Instead of fixing it they pile on.
Meh - it was different back then. The INS (as it was then known) was so incredibly slow and cumbersome, people pretty much had to overstay their visas, it was completely Kafkaesque. When it takes more than 90 days to process an extension to a 90-day visa, you can only file in-country, and leaving the country will be considered "abandoning your application", well... The INS actually sent a student visa extension to Mohammed Atta six months after 9/11 (to the day, even), and then had the b.lls to claim that it shouldn't be considered a mistake, really, it was just how the system worked.
For all of its faults (and there are many), the USCIS is a huge improvement.
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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Well gee, those corporate IT CEOs must be dancing in the halls over this.
They run through their 65K quota of H1-B IT folks a year in advance.
Oh, yes. Nothing like holding the rights for your workforce to even stay in the US as a negotiation tool. Suuuure, these guys are hired on the same conditions as their US counterparts.
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