Investigation has found that the administration, with their new rules and policies, has been denying visas to experienced, well-paid workers, many of whom have degrees from American universities and have previously received H-1Bs.
There’s been an explosion of H-1B related lawsuits filed against USCIS under the Trump administration alleging that the agency has been making inconsistent and incorrect decisions, ignoring evidence, and misapplying the law.
Here's the full story:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trump-h1b-visa-immigration-restrictions/?fbclid=IwAR2iJigX0vO0YqoEwSGuv3IXx9kU7rKePsR4iXVpIstkXVGGd5Cpp_geBn8
And here's a twitter thread with examples of illogical, unreasonable denials:
[https://twitter.com/cynduja/status/1201605471427350528](https://twitter.com/cynduja/status/1201605471427350528?fbclid=IwAR2o2iK-WJNI_6hIY8OBG-2Dcx2FOGTrJfZT63OAMGyGc-fJLqx_cxXfEdQ)
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Trump has built a wall of bureaucracy to keep out the high-skilled immigrants he says he wants
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“Oh the takeover of IT department by Indian low wage workers!”
I am myself on h1b from India but I have many other coworkers on h1b from countries other than India and China and none of them has gotten any rfe or denial when doing transfers or so.
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First, your conclusion about amazon is the most idiotic generalization I’ve ever seen.
Second, you couldn’t comprehend my reply either. It’s obvious that LastResorts coworkers could successfully transfer H1b, otherwise they wouldn’t work with him. That observation is pure survivor bias which doesn’t mean shit.
What happened?
In some sense, I feel some of these h1 tightening is good, because it makes sure that folks realize h1b isn't a permanent status, it's temporary and puts focus on the underlying issue of backlog, whose existence hurts American workers due to the lack of mobility for h1 workers depressing wages for all.
The worst was the Obama administration, which was corporate sold out and had very lax standards in his second term, backstabbed on his promise of i140 EAD and many such things.
Some of these things are getting tightened, some will get tightened with law, hopefully if s386 passes with Grassley amendment (this is a long shot, but worth mentioning the only bill that has come this close to passing in last 15 years and has any h1 abuse prevention provision is s386).
Maintaining integrity of the h1 system is important and when it's compromised, it hurts everyone who is a participant in the labor market.
If people are countries, why are we letting in folks from iran, who are an enemy country? Why China (President thinks everyone from China is a spy)?
Using country of birth - you can also justify Japanese internment camps ( something that everyone who reads history today agrees wasn't right) and also Chinese exclusion. The list goes on... To be clear, my Chinese and Iranian colleagues are equal and need to be treated fairly and equally as me.
You can't justify country of birth for employment green card - because someone is already vetted for their skill. Countries like Canada and Australia don't have country caps for skills green card. There is a reason - country of birth isn't a skill. I couldn't do my job better just because I was born in country X vs Y. A green card that is given for my skill - has no place for where I born.
There is need for diversity and there is exactly a green card for that - diversity visa.