Only 80,000 H1B visas are issued every year. Since there are more applicants than visa available, so there is a lottery every year. Indian and Chinese account for overwhelmingly larger number of H1B holders since they have a lot more applicants than ppl from other country. Do you support H1B country cap so that all nationals have equal chance?
Chinese are in different situation from Indians. They get their green card within 4-5 years because significant portion of them go back to China. Also Indians are mostly on master program for CS and EE which are primarily for getting a job in US; therefore, Indians are many times more than Chinese including h1b and green card application. Having many engineering office branches and staffing agencies in India make them easy to come and apply for these as well. H1B for example was filed by mostly Indians like 80%. So I think you want to separate Chinese in the poll option. Chinese colleagues I know are not too disappointed by long green card queue.
The whole point of country quota is diversity. So yes I support it. Lottery however is a dumb system. That should be replaced by some sort of merit system. Even prioritizing MS/phd grads over others can be a good criterion. That will benefit both the educational and corporate sector of the country.
Education is a shitty way to do it. It's just false that people with two more years of education are more meritorious than somebody with two more years work experience. I'd take the guy who had 2yrs at Google any day over the guy with a master's from University of Phoenix. Way too many people enroll in master's and PhD degree programs just to get an immigration benefit. Often all you are measuring is the level of desperation: a more desperate person is willing to waste years on getting a credential for an immigration benefit than a less desperate person.
Letโs say priority to a degree from US university over foreign universities. That was the point. Google is so big, I wonโt hold work ex at Google a credibility factor. What did you really do during your 2 years at Google? A person at some random company could also learn just as much or more based on what position they are holding and their job description is.
Why not just send all H1Bs back to their home countries after the visa is up? Go back and make your country great.
Because tech companies pay them a lot and want them stay. They need to stay here to get all the unvested RSUs. Sending them back will not automatically make you qualified for the jobs that you are not qualified for.
No worries, after hiring me these companies are gonna train me to become qualified for such jobs. But dimwits such as H1B holders are surely not going to like it.
Ban Indians from H1B for a couple of years to correct the uneven balance and prevent increasing Indian GC backlog, then implement quota.
Per country quota for employment based immigration makes 0 sense. A person should not be discriminated based on citizenship or place of birth, just as based on color or race. Now, issuing H1Bs based on salaries where the highest bidders (the best indicator of need) get the quote sounds like a better option, which would usually translate into a salary at least comparable if not more than the average American citizen in the same line of work. Maybe one could think of allocating a certain %, say 10%, of total visas for startups since they may not otherwise be able to compete with the FAANGs out there.
Limit companies to a certain percentage of their employees allowed to be on H1B. Companies can qualify for additional H1Bs only if the average salary they are paying is above a certain amount.
Why doesn't it make sense? If it was only about filling short tell employment needs we could just have h1b and no greencard process at all. The h1b already satisfied the employment need. The further step of offering a path to citizenship is a broader goal than just filling one job at one company and many more considerations apply than just the needs of some company. Another important goal is making sure that we get immigrants from a variety of countries. Why are you arbitrarily dismissing that goal? It's important it ensures that people integrate and that we don't get racial ghettos but instead s mix of people who find common ground in American values. Have you made yourself King of America and decided to tell us what we would want out of our immigration system? Just the goals that are important to you personally and no others?
Its India* btw op.
Nonsense poll. All applicants who are not Indian or Chinese can file and obtain work-based GC quickly. It is your problem if you donโt get your GC during OPT assuming that you were not born in these two countries.
Indian is 70% of H1Bs, Chinese is like 7%, why do you put them together?
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Lottery is dumb. Priority should be by salary. That way best talent will be attracted, which is the intent of h1b.
The thing is salary is relative to regions and industries. Salary is also not the only way to evaluate talent. A PhD biochemist in Midwest makes a lot less than a rookie software engineer in Bay area. It makes more sense to factor in the education level, salary, region and industry to determine the priority
Salaries can be normalized region-wise.