All this fuss, but no concrete action on H1B abusers
With the initial intention of H1B to be a highly skilled visa, why does the government not impose restrictions or penalize the companies hiring contractors on Visa, when it's clear that it's just a workaround to circumvent the visa intention, almost enabling abusers to continue leeching the system... Why not make it an easy process to hire full-time candidates who meet the merit required. Or make a special category of visa which is owned and maintained by USCIS rather than a shady intermediary for temporary contract work for skill gap areas?
Wait this is actually a dumber comment than I thought. The govt should be more concerned with the growth of the economy, and labor shortage would only hinder that. If amazon increased its compensation, that would only draw workers from other tech companies. You still have the same labor shortage in the tech sector. So wtf
@ofrhz It’s not Amazon’s compensation. H1B petitions have minimum wage requirements and it’s currently at $60k, and for a “skilled”workers that is way too low and it’s easy to abuse at that compensation. Now if minimum compensation is say $100k then companies will think before abusing it. Usually contractors get projects for 100-120k per head and then they hire H1 head for 60k!
Same Sploiters different Ponzie Scheme. There is a reason America is winning. Grit.
There will always be more to do. Learn to mange your work load. And tighten up h1b all around. Getting old seeing not just one but a second high tech job have to be found for some h1b holders spouse
1. The government should remove the H1-B cap. 2. Salary for H1B should be minimum 120K 3. Only direct recruitment possible. End H1B contracting and C2C corruption. 4. US Masters/Phd education should have more weightage.
^This
The green card and H1b backlog has to be solved together. Have we heard of any TCS H1B visas denied post sept 11?
First clear the backlog by giving green cards to people who have been paying taxes diligently, following the rules and have a US degree. This should apply to all whose I-140 has been pending for more than last 5 years. That way these folks will not have to keep renewing H1 or do H1 transfer. That reduces backlog and workload.
Just a thought, why do you assume those who applied I140 earlier are more deserving rather than the ones who have more merit? If they weed out abusers doesn't that clear the backlog too?
My question back is how do you determine merit. US degree? I have mentioned it above. If you want patents and PHD you have EB1 for it. That’s clearly not the issue here. In the quest to weed out abusers is that there is No clear guideline and could cause collateral damage for genuine cases. So my proposal is clear and it will encourage folks to come here if the GC wait time is not more than 5 years. H1b backlog is associated with GC backlog. It’s a vicious cycle here.
Cisco just got busted hiring h1b's instead of us citizens and paying them less. Go look up the article.
See again, H1B employee/ visa gets the blame for an organization that chooses to abuse it because the lawmakers blame the H1B but do nothing to eliminate the flaws with the H1B law/ policy
Convince congress and USCIS to not do easy stuff and MAGA! Ranting it out here is not going to help. Be the change.
Any kind of policy meddling is looked down upon if you are an immigrant
Because USCIS is heavily heavily understaffed...True story dudes.
So there's skills shortage in USCIS?
Why not just relax the h1b visa requirements and increase the number of visas? I can’t be the only one overworked around here because my team can’t meet our headcount requirements since none of the interview candidates meet the bar
I don't think that will deter abusers, infact it might promote it. I like the new policy changes USCIS is doing from the intention perspective, but they are not very smart at it, the abusers are easily outsmarting them
Not enough return new grads?