With PP gone, looks like its a soft signal from administration to all h1b folks to either pack their bags or rot in their current jobs forever! Let me explain. In current climate, chances of getting rfe is close to 70%. I had transferred and renewed my h1b several times until I applied for a transfer in April this year for FTE role, CS background with 17years exp. To my utter dismay, I was given rfe for specialty occupation and it took three months to get an approval, imagine it took this long with PP in place, what is going to be our plight with PP going away! Going by my bad experience with h1b transfer, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to transfer jobs just on receipt. It would be better to wait till Feb when PP comes back for 3 months(yes, they will most likely suspend it again in April). I know my post sounds so negative, but unfortunately, this is the reality! Feel free to ask me any questions through your comments.
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It's a privilege, you were lucky you had one, be grateful. The US did a favor to you by letting you live here.
Remember, you applied for the Visa, the US didn't knock on your door to ask you to take their Visa.
I have been a high performer at everything I have done. Went to a top 5 school in Asia, got offers from Google Sydney, Rakuten Tokyo and Microsoft Redmond. With the prospect in living in the land of opportunities and the supposed "American Dream", I chose this. After about 5 years in Microsoft, I decided to switch. Got couple of offers, chose Amazon! Immidiately got RFE - "Speciality occupation".
The job listing clearly listed Masters and exoerience with designing and implementing distributed systems as the requirement - can a job get more specific than this?
I had to wait 3 months in limbo to make a switch and now I hear that its virtually impossible to get out from here.
This month, my paystub had over $1k deducted for Social Security Tax. - isn't it a scam if the government does not want us to stay here? How can they deduct SST for people working on non-immigrant visas with a clear mandate from the government to not let them become citizens here?
I sorely regret my decision to have not chosen Japan or Australia over coming to this immigrant hell where people are being shot coz they are from outside (Kansas shooting). One of the managers in my org had a headcount and he instructed the recruiter to only look for people who wouldn't require visas - she responded with total of 2 candidates after scourging LinkedIn for around a month - and, both were a skill mismatch! This is the reality of US today!
In my team at MS and here at Amazon. I see a max of 10-20% americans - rest are european, asians and Indians!
What are we supposed to do now? Wait for our careers to be fucked or move out of this country?
I understand your frustration brother. It started with targeting illegal immigrants and now they are targeting people who came in legally. Outsourcing jobs is a serious concern and it will happen more and more if this continues! As they have to pay off shore team members who are not part of American economy !
Tolka to your wyFe about her assa, brah.
Nobody’s targeting legal immigrants. They’re just targeting your freaking body shops which bring low skilled manpower here.
When you get your visa you should’ve received everything related to taxes etc.
But probably your TATA didn’t provide those to you.
If all Indians disappear form IT here - nothing going to change, we’ll just get more educated people from Europe, Oceania, China. The ones who just can’t get visas because of Indian scammers.
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That being said, i have enormous respect for hindus and its many spiritual teachings, but importing a ton of indians into our companies is only turning our countries into Indian companies. Which means loss of efficiency because of unnecessary beauracracy, India is not an efficient country and crime and fraud are social norms in most places, everybody is trying to rip each-other off with a smile on their face. Immigration without assimilation starts to transform the host nation into the nation (or company) into exactly what the immigrants are trying to escape.
I think I try my best to be a functioning member of society . I donate time and money to social causes and I try to help others.
I would hate to be ousted , my whole life because of the rising anti- immigrant sentiment.