Here you go ? Is H1b/h4/l1 visa good or bad for America
May 2, 2018
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I want to hear both sides.
Both sides are not happy with current high skill visa program H1B ?
What are your suggestions?
Should non engineers like product managers / QA qualify for program?
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Make it clear it's not an immigrant visa it's a temporary worker visa.
People who want a greencard can apply for one directly from their home country via consular processing. Then their lives will not be on hold, since they can work, vote, go to school, etc, in their home country.
Too many people think it is step one in the greencard process but it was never intended to be that, then complain they their lives are on hold due to the confusion about what their visa is for. End the confusion. Deny GC from h1b.
Google "consular processing" if you want to learn more about it.
The H1b route is what almost all companies do because they can, but that's not what H1b was intended to be used for, and it should be stopped.
People going around from one company to another on the basis of an old job offer (i140) they actually have no intention of ever accepting is a legal hack and a total abuse of the system.
@Lc it's only a "huge risk" if companies go about filling applications for random people they barely know. The employment greencard system expects employers to have done that due diligence on the candidate. The reason they don't do that today is that they instead abuse the h1b program to try people out, or in the case of Indians, as a pseudo green card via the i140 portability hack.
If someone is smart and will contribute, give them permanent residence aka a “green card” so they can freely quit their job and start their own company if they want to.
It's the agencies like Tata, Accenture, Infosys that take advantage.
Just look at the pay scales on h1bdata.info and all the "consultancies" pay the worse. Most other direct hire companies take care of their H1Bs.