Here you go ? Is H1b/h4/l1 visa good or bad for America
I want to hear both sides. Both sides are not happy with current high skill visa program H1B ? What are your suggestions? Should non engineers like product managers / QA qualify for program?
Why do you care? Are you a senator?
Yes planning to run for office
The answer is non Boolean
It's great.
It's good
The H-1B system is bad, because it forces people to live un-free lives for years in an otherwise free country, and be under total control of their employer. If someone is smart and will contribute, give them permanent residence aka a “green card” so they can freely quit their job and start their own company if they want to.
That doesnt address the the question. The question was if it was good or bad. If an immigration visa was the only way to work in another country do you assume it would accelerate immigration to fill the non immigration visa gap? Everyone knows immigration is broken and largely unfair I suppose the question is if work visas are as well.
It’s bad. The current system unquestionably hurts American workers.
It's great for everyone except those who are on it and would prefer it to be an immigration visa (as opposed to a non immigration visa forcing people to apply for dual intent)
It’s not the program designed for engineers. It’s a program for professionals in all spaces. Eliminating cheap labor / outsourcing firms or having engineers on other visas can be an answer rather than making an H1b engineers only.
Should engineers have separate category? Like H1B-E with minimal paperwork and less wait for green card
There should be no temporary visas for engineers who want to stay long term. They should get conditional green cards immediately, and after 24 months they should get a regular green card. The conditions could be something like: stay employed for 20 of those 24 months, make a certain annual salary, and don’t use public funds. Temporary visas like H-1 should only be used for truly temporary work. They should be limited to say 12–13 months, and not be renewable.
He is the fix: make h1b a non immigrant visa with no chance to apply greencard and deny any extension beyond six years. Make it clear it's not an immigrant visa it's a temporary worker visa. People who want a greencard can apply for one directly from their home country via consular processing. Then their lives will not be on hold, since they can work, vote, go to school, etc, in their home country. Too many people think it is step one in the greencard process but it was never intended to be that, then complain they their lives are on hold due to the confusion about what their visa is for. End the confusion. Deny GC from h1b.
Ok, so how exactly you see people applying for green card from their country? What category? If it’s that easy why do you think people from India or China would not do that instead?
There's nothing about i140 or EB2/EB3 that requires you to be in the US or on a work visa. They just send your greencard to your consulate when your priority date comes current. Originally that is how immigration was meant to work. The adjustment of status from a visa to permanent resident was meant to be an exceptional case, and applying directly for an be employment based greencard at a foreign consulate was intended to be the primary way.
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