Anyone affected by The suspension of premium processing of H1B
I’m a reporter at the LA Times and I’m doing a story about how some of the changes to the H1b process is affecting the tech industry and tech workers. If you’ve been affected at all either by more rigorous vetting of applications or the delays in the approval process in general, I’d really like to hear your story. I know there are also people who feel tech companies are exploiting the H1b process. I’d love to talk to you in either case. Happy to talk on background. Johana.bhuiyan@latimes.com
TC or .... Sorry but that is how it is.
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Suspension of premium processing sucks. Has lead to many people deciding not to risk changing jobs or losing job offers as employers are not willing to wait 6 months for a visa transfer. I had to personally change my international travel plans because of the suspension. What this administration is doing to legal immigrants is death by a thousand cuts. Trump should take his H-1B tweet from today and shove it. What he says about legal immigrants and what actually happens to us are completely different things.
There are two easy ways you can get what you want: 1) Blind did a poll and many folks responded. I responded four times and the same poll kept showing up in my notification. If you do ask Blind about that poll result, please ask them to fix that multiple notification bug too. 2) Just browse the work Visa page on Blind and you will easily find 100+ queries about it.
I have an offer from one of the top companies and now I am stuck in the visa transfer process since it has been pending for last 3 months. Suspension of premium processing has impacted a lot on my career growth.
You need to do the needful first, Johanna
You wait months interviewing and getting a job, then another few months to get H1B transferred, and meanwhile you can’t leave country to visit family because it’s “not recommended”. While your application is getting processed you have to keep doing your current job which you may or may not like, and with the uncertainty that your application may get rejected for whatever reason and you may just have to stay in your current job, putting all that months of hard work in drain. So, even if we pull through the process it’s really stressful state of mind, and I you imagine why many people would procrastinate/avoid switching jobs unconsciously because of all this. And I felt all this when I work for top companies making 250k with 2.5 yoe which is not H1B abuse by any means.
I'm currently waiting for an H1 transfer. I have an offer on the table and I have the H1 transfer receipt but I'm too scared to join without an actual approval. I'm losing a lot of money in the process because the pay difference is significant.
The suspension doesn’t make any financial sense. 1. The USCIS lose on the premium processing fee. 2. Generally people switch jobs for more pay which is more taxes for the Government. 3.The suspension was put in place to process huge backlog of non premium cases, but the I-129 processing date at CSC has actually retrogressed to Feb 2018.
Since then we have damn reporters here?
Exactly!!