There are two problems:
1. Too many candidates from one particular country. When diversity is not kept people don’t integrate, communicate between their culture only, bring all their relatives, hire only from their country, nothing good. No any country should get more than 10% of H1B or GC.
2. The way India abuses H1B flooding and even selling applications (what is against the US law).
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcing-companies-dominate-h1b-visas.html
This problem #2 prevents from talented people from another countries get their H1B visas.
Even if we solve problem #2 (say by raising minimal wage) we still should have country cap and don’t allow one country get more than 10% of H1B and GCs.
Bill S386 doesn’t solve any of these issues, should not pass. Instead it will allow Indian H1B abusing companies let their current H1B holders go, and sell another 10 years of H1B to next army of IT refugees. Also if passed non Indian queues will be waiting for several years while Indian applications are processed.
But the bill probably will pass because most of those senators don’t really care about the country. They said they will pass the bill if it will allow to import thousands of NURSES 🤦♂️from overseas. They don’t even think what is wrong with this country, why we cannot provide our own nurses.
So guys from non Indian countries, get ready for the worst 😎
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the Visa System
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Lot of Europeans came in from same countries in masses. So, US should not allow Europeans now for diversity? Why is there a diversity visa? 140k GC max for EB, US population is 330 million!
It simply doesn't make sense to not allow people paying 50-100k taxes not give a GC in name of diversity! There is entire diversity lottery, 50k out of the box.
How is US benefitting by not giving Google L6 Indian GC but give green card to a new grad at no name US company because he/she is from different country?
If consultancy abused H1B so much, why not question USCIS and DOL?
Europeans helped build US so did Indians, US people may be great founders, but leaders always need followers and people who can execute. So many Indian CEOs and all are working for tech future and it keeps US competetive. You just can't have leaders and not enough people to execute idea!
What you expect, Indians stand outside US embassy and not let consultancy folks enter embassy so they don't get visa?
Department of Labor, DHS, USCIS should do this work. Reject all consultancy visa, why are they not rejecting it?
US likes to take advantage & complain too. US wants cheap labor is fact so they do nothing. They can solve illegal immigration also in minutes but they need low wage workers to work in farms, restaurants so they allow it.
They can't have it both ways, it's hypocrisy.
Harsh reality is US needs cheap workers in any category more than high skilled people & so off the record US government lets everything happen.
US can afford to let Google L6 go but they need that consultancy people to keep their economy running so corporate can earn $$$$, so USCIS is doing nothing much!
No work is happening anywhere, I said in next comment why not merit based than this stupid bill but as I said, harsh reality is US don't give a damn about ROW, merit based etc. As long as some system allows US corporations to earn $$$$, it will not change!
On #2 immigrants are individuals and not representative of their place of birth. Soviet era people were welcome to immigrate to the USA despite the Cold War. Whatever Indian companies do or did are to be dealt with those entities, not with immigrants. None think Einstein should not be able to immigrate because he’s from Nazi Germany.
I’m an India born US citizen. I’m sad to see people literally calling for discrimination against us. It’s our immigration policy and we should get rid of place of birth criteria. The merit based is the way to go but that’s a longer fight.
And the lottery system is another American problem. It is used so that low paid nurses are not cut all together from the visas. We should fix that. Again, why is this has to do with an Indian immigrating to the USA? It’s American problem that lobbyists want to protect low cost nursing positions.