TL;DR: give them all green cards, right now, but get rid of H1 visas! I am not an Indian. Initially I was opposed to this "Indian amnesty". But look - they are already here, and it's actually not healthy for a company to have all these people on H1 for many years (!) - I mean, it's not healthy for the rest of us. I can imagine how some shitty companies would actually prefer hiring Indians on H1 - because of their employer-dependent status. Let's give them all - and everyone else, who is here on H1 - greed cards, the right to live here _unconditional_ of their employers. But also, get rid of this H1 scam - which hurts everyone!
It hurts other countries by increasing their processing times and thus hurts our diversity. No?
Well, as I said - let's get rid of the backlog for H1s from all countries, who are already there. Like a one-time effort. But just stop H1 visa.
Plot twist: OP is an Indian here on H1B, wants to stop the others from tasting the sweet cookies when OP already picked up theirs. As long as OP gets a GC, other H1B aspirants gtfo
I think the only fix the H1 program neds is to replace the lottery with an "order by salary desc"
Where’s the option for “I don’t care...we’ve got other problems?” India has too many people trying to come here. It’s a problem with them producing like 50x more engineers than their own overpopulated country needs. Our immigration laws was designed precisely to prevent a country like India from overwhelming and monopolizing the GC system. Give them all GC and the queue will fill up again in 2 years. Fawgitaboutit. We shouldn’t pick winners and losers. That’s why the per country cap is there. India will get every remaining cap diff other countries do not fill. Wait in line like everyone else. It’s sucks, but it’s the best system we’ve got until we get something like merit based or a complete revamp of our immigration system.
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Why exactly H1 hurts everyone?
Lowers SWE salaries, cap'n?
Where? SWE salaries are growing much faster than probably any other job. Newgrads these days start with 200k TC in some cases