People on H1b who are worried about the recent news- what action we can take

Jan 1, 2018 193 Comments

Fellow blinders on H1b, the recent news on H4 and H1b is disturbing and if you are looking for ways to help prevent disruptions to your life, you can help by spreading awareness of HR-392 and follow the instructions in the link below.

Tldr: HR 392 is a bill that asks for fairness in green card process. The major reason for having a long wait time for gc for some countries is the per-country cap. This bill aims at removing this cap. It has co-sponsorship from 300+ congressmen. Immigration Voice made a recent amendment to the bill to pay the US government $4b for passing this bill along with any immigration bill that is already in the pipeline (DACA for example).

Immigration Voice had shared steps we (common folks) can take to help pass this bill.

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  • Microsoft / Eng
    Sugardaddy

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    Amazon
    Sugardaddy
    I am against removing per country cap. I wish you all the best.
    Jan 1, 2018 11
    • Pandora
      Toqr71

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      Toqr71
      Wow what a racist moron. I bet people who thought discriminating black in 1960 maya be thinking I am better as at least I am not keeping them slave. How can you live with your self discriminating us based on country of born
      Jan 29, 2018
    • Pandora
      Toqr71

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      Toqr71
      Do you have any idea how much trouble we have to go through in constant paperwork n always worry about changing immigration policy. because why we born on certain country. This is classic example of racism and discrimination. Have a nice day assh*le
      Jan 29, 2018
  • fuck this bill, so your service companies will continue abusing the system and you remove the cap meaning the US will become another shithole like India.

    fuck no, stop the h1b abuse first
    Jan 1, 2018 10
    • Oracle
      777gt

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      777gt
      @ghjufh

      Bull Shit.

      That's just what you are telling yourself he is saying.

      I've driven through many predominantly white mobile home parks in the US and thought they were shit holes.

      But I have never once thought the white people who lived there were racially inferior.
      Jan 2, 2018
    • If Indians think their country is so great and not a shit hole then WHY are you guys living in US and want a green card/citizenship?. I just don’t get it. Something is wrong with your country that’s why you left to live in US and demanding for GC. Rofl
      Feb 1, 2018
  • This is not gonna pass. It's so blatantly unfair.
    Jan 1, 2018 35
    • Facebook
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      ijn34fdcvh
      what? how did you come with this 5x number? it is so convenient to compare apples and oranges of dv applications with employment based ones to make such ridiculous claims. please try better next time a find a number of dv lottery applications from India. alright I am not going to bother arguing with you as I see that you are not inclined to keep the discussion is good faith. however, it is symbolic how Indians start to attack any inconvenient opinion. and please relieve me from race discussions. where on earth is immigration quotas are racial discrimination? why Indians born on the UK receive their gcs in 2 years? if you want to continue the discussion please avoid the crapshoots of words.
      Jan 4, 2018
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      ululemon

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      ululemon
      I came up with 5x number using publicly available data in following formula

      (# of GC applicants in emp and div from Russia)/ (# of GC applicants in emp and div from India)

      In this entire thread you are throwing up numbers like 100x, 70x without any context, and you have the gall of questioning others when they are using facts?

      Go cry in your newsfeed.
      Jan 4, 2018
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    ululemon

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    ululemon
    I think many responders misunderstood the country cap removal in HR 392. The bill is not asking to remove the total cap, just the country cap within the total cap.

    There are 140K employment based GC given every year (IIRC). No more than 6 or 7% of those will be given to people born in a specific country (this is the cap within cap). That is ~8k maximum a year.

    As a result Applications from people born in India gets moved to backlog although there are tens of thousands of employment based GC spots goes unfilled every year.
    Jan 1, 2018 14