Make temporary visas temporary again

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lyIw84

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lyIw84
Aug 8, 2020 179 Comments

A temporary visa is by definition not temporary if it allows infinite renewal and doesn't mandate return back to the home country. The best way to clear the green card backlog and save American jobs is to ensure temporary visas are temporary. Infinitely renewing temporary visas is abuse and it should be an outrage among all Americans that the system allows this.

Possible solutions:

1) Remove dual intent from H1B and L1

2) Make the 6 year limit the actual limit for the H1 and L1 visas. Stop infinite renewal abuse as it is not fair for Americans and not what the visa was made for.

3) Country caps on visas to ease backlog

Feel free to give own suggestions on how to end temporary visa abuse!

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  • Amazon / Eng
    USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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    USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
    Well people are applying for GC on F-1 OPT (which is single intent) and are getting GC without H-1B. Thatโ€™s not an abuse?

    Stop cribbing and move on.
    Aug 8, 2020 27
    • Cisco
      hjch71

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      hjch71
      H1bs wouldn't be needed if Corporations decided to pay Americans what they are worth than for Nationals "what they'll accept and remit home". I've had to help wrote a fake job description so that they could justify the H1B, it is absolutely abused by corporations. Then Indian Men inevitably only hire and promote other Indian Men. I've seen it all over the place, they bring their racism, sexism and even caste system with them and destroy good teams with their "everyone for themselves" attitude. It's toxic.
      Aug 11, 2020
    • Amazon
      lyIw84

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      OP
      And I'll focus my attention on letting American leaders know how the immigration system is being abused and ensuring that laws that enable this abuse further do not get passed while laws that stop this abuse get prioritised. Stop making a mockery of the system.
      Aug 11, 2020
  • This guy just got his GC.
    Aug 8, 2020 1
  • Cruise
    mexcap

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    mexcap
    ok OP let me educate you a bit about H1-B. first of all, i do not know why you are worried about H1-B and L1 visa. no one asked your opinion, but since you have decided to put your nose in, let me tell you a story.

    total number of employment based green cards issued per year for all countries: 140k
    total number of green cards issued per year: ~700k

    so only 20% goes to somewhat "qualified" category - of course there is abuse, but lets say at least there are some good people (like the way the president said some mexicans are good people)

    other ~500k GC are basically family-based which again I am not against, but if you are given the choice of merit vs family, i am not sure what you would choose. since merit based people have higher paying jobs (H1-B's at least make 75kish, pay taxes and some of them also create jobs for the country).

    knowing all these facts, lets go to the point you are making. it seems you are worried about employment-based GC backlog, what is your opinion of family based GC backlog? why don't you propose a few solutions for that?

    again, all this mess is created by representatives elected by people like you, its great when you benefit from different technological advances created by qualified immigrants, but suddenly when trying to assimilate them to society, you have a sore eye. these policies have adverse effect for everyone, it suppresses wages for immigrants too, not just for americans. america has fundamentally done great at exploiting immigrants at different stages, and this is another version of that. taxes without representation for 20+ years. immigrants pay social security and medicare, that people like you benefit from but they do not. so stop talking from your high horse, and GTFO. soon your job will be taken over by an immigrant, given the attitude you have.
    Aug 8, 2020 39
  • When tech jobs pay went down to 75k/yr, you wouldn't see any "abusement" any more. It's high paying because the requirements are not met by average Americans.
    Aug 8, 2020 10
  • You call it abuse. If these visas werenโ€™t making money for the economy, you wouldnโ€™t have companies lobbying politicians to not fuck with them. You got a problem? Speak with your representatives.

    Unless this is just a post to rant it out, which is cool
    Aug 8, 2020 2