Common complaint is that H1B is bringing in low salary workers undercutting wage. What if instead of lottery top applications by salary (adjusted for experience) are selected. Will fix abuse where low paid workers get in and upset the job market. Same foe GC instead of EB1 ans EB2 EB3 just make salary buckets. After all the best should be paid the best and thats also great for everyone. Thoughts from Citizens? 22yr a yoe 220k base GC HOLDER India (CITIZENSHIP ELIGIBLE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS)
It would work. EB1/O1 should be for world renown people (ie, tightened up considerable). EB2 should be for experienced professionals stack ranked by salary EB3 should be for new college grads, stack ranked by national test scores (like GMAT, or whatever standardized test their country uses). For EB3 it should be country capped / population proportional to avoid having to compare test scores between countries, but EB1 and EB3 should be uncapped.
But standard test scores are already considered racism in this country.
Based on your 22 yoe and couple years for citizen eligibility, are you saying it took you 19 years to get your GC? Now that's a broken system!
All 22 not in usa. It took me about 10 years
It would be really bad for the new grads though. A freshly minted top 10 program graduate isn't going to make more than a mid-career body shop worker, but one is definitely more valuable to the US than the other.
You see salary adjusted for experience make it subjective! There is already salary adjusted for experience, job, location, etc etc... That is called Labor condition application (LCA) minimum wage. Companies game this to underpay ppl.
LCA is a joke. Companies game it to lay off qualified Americans and replace them with imported consultants earning peanuts.
What about other industries which don’t pay as much but still need H1B ?
Good point. Right now they are almost completely shut out of the h1b program by the Indian consulting spam. I guess so should have caps on job clarifications rather than on source countries. Like no not than 5% of the visas for a single labor classification so that they are spread out over at least twenty roles.
Consulting H1B and GC should be capped to 20%
GC and H1B are two very different programs. GC should be independent of salary for a number of reasons. As for H1B, drop the adjustment for experience from your proposal. Just sort by salary. That will incentivize companies to find domestic talent or innovate.
Also people should get an EAD after their 140 is approved. That will make the job change easier.
Why should they? You are trying to turn i140 approval into a greencard. In that case the visa cap should be on i140 rather than i485. Right now there's no cap on the number of i140 that can be approved.
EAD is not a green card and i140 is a green card sans the country quota. EAD is not a green card as you still need visa and years don’t count towards citizenship. This can be done through an EO.
Why is your last paragraph mostly caps? Genuine question
He's obviously screaming the last part :D