The current GC queue is optimized for diversity (country cap) and a bit of merit (EB1,2,3), however there’s much to be desired since country based queues are imbalanced and abuse by consulting companies is rampant. Since everyone generally agrees that employee based immigration ought to be merit based, how would you define “merit” and sort the GC queue in the most effective way? I would assume a score can be derived by normalizing all the different components - compensation, cost of living, field of work, college degree, school ranking, perf reviews (!!), and perhaps non-merit based components as well if truly needed such as country, language and gender! I’m not saying a new solution won’t be abused, but I think we have more data than before at our disposal to come up with a smarter solution. TC: 🌲fiddy, SF, 8 yoe
Nothing’s gonna change the fact that US hates such a huge desi population. No matter which rule you put in,.. at the end - unless you don’t become part of US society you are alway an outsider. Though I see few issues with immigration system, I find fault with Indians at large. The moment more number of Indians started migrating, we have almost alienated ourselves out of American society. Which is bad for local culture. So, either learn the lesson and be a better a citizen of some other country which is still encouraging immigration, or go back to India! No point in finding faults with what Americans want for their country.
Dude, you don't assimilate, but please don't say everyone. This self blaming and generalizing your mistakes will go nowhere
I told what have I seen in others and heard from American counterparts. What made you believe that I won’t assimilate? Lol!!
Again, I am fairly sure thinking 10 minutes someone can get better ideas. As far as changing laws is concerned, it's not about the smartest, it is about what can pass. There are so many actors/entities here, to whom your solution should be agreeable, else your intellectual orgasm is as good as mine. Here are the actors: Business - why would they move from current to new one. Anti immigrant groups - cis, fair and others Immigrant groups - there isn't any here which has presence in hill other than immigration voice as far as high skilled immigration is concerned. Republican - why would they support your idea. Democrats - will this make it impossible for them to further undocumented immigration? Likely yes. Effectively this is computing highest common factor in terms of what is palatable to each group. Again, this is just the ideation phase. Now you need to bankroll and then push your agenda to all the parties above and make them agree. You also hire lobbyist and push the agenda around. Immigrants, especially those in backlog, will expect someone else to solve their problem and are mostly noactioners, who think they can't have a voice, so let someone else do (to be clear - you can still talk to reps and ask for support). As you can see, ideas are cheap as far as hill is concerned. It has dearth of ideas that can pass - because the system is optimized for status quo. HR 392 is a first step. Everyone agrees it's not the ultimate version (that would be a comprehensive reform, but no one knows if one is possible in current Trump term nor to get a veto proof cir out of house), but the first baby step. Even this bill, which is relatively non controversial has so much struggle to pass. Heck 75% of house reps have promised (via cosponsorship) that they agree. But yes, it hasn't passed. A previous version of this exact bill passed house in 2012 (with 380+ yes). As you understand how the political system works, you will start to realize how there is a huge disconnect between 'intellectual orgasms' and reality. If coming up with ideas can get your bad feelings about the broken system out of your system, do it to flush it out of your body. But realize that that didn't help you and most of your smart ideas won't ever live to see being as a text in a bill, forget about getting passed.
HR 392
Except it's not an actual solution. The math doesn't work. It still leaves a growing years long queue. You need to cut the number of applicants. There's more people applying than there are visas and just slicing it in a different way, like hr392 does, doesn't solve anything.
Nope hr392 actually will stabilize the current line to a position where it will not be as terrible as it is today. 140k outflow will have 85k h1 inflow and l1 inflow. L1 inflow is unknown, but not expected to be high (although I am willing to hear better numbers). So you should definitely see the line stabilize.
Posted it elsewhere, but here it is - we have so many folks who will complain, but when it is time to fly to DC to talk to reps, everyone has more important pani Puri parties to attend. We are great keyboard warriors, but we rarely actually do anything for our cause (to be clear - includes me). Political system won't change for you. It is like molasses. You have to take effort to change. 'Someone else will do - I don't have to do' - is our attitude. Daca is in rocks, but majority in the hill is okay to pass - mainly because of their advocacy. Deep pockets - lots of congressional offices behind the cause. Oh and DACA kids are non citizens just like you. They have no special previleges. However, their awareness of the system and ability to navigate is impressive. This article sums up how well advocacy funded daca is: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/26/14398660/trump-daca-dreamers Folks on the hill care because they have been well oiled by lobbyist to sing the way daca kids want - not because one day someone woke up and thought this is a great idea to do. Daca advocacy has been going on for 17 years - no kidding. They haven't got anything yet. But they didn't give up. They continued to push when things didn't go their way. At this point, they are reasonably on autopilot, because of all the advocacy they have done. Even so, every day - a bunch of DACA folks show up in Hill knocking congressional offices and Senate offices seeking support. (How do I know? I was in DC several months back and I saw some DACA kids in Rayburn office. I asked them how often they come and they said everyday we have some folks come from different parts of the country). In the last RNC - there were close to 1000 DACA receipents who attended. There were less than a million who received DACA EAD - indicates 0.1% of them are politically active enough to attend an event in person. H1 folks usually have this argument that I can't vote, why would they hear me - also falls flat. Daca kids infact aren't even legal on paper and often have a family member who could be deported anytime. If anything they should be 100 times more scared and they show up in every political event. Folks on h1 won't bother contributing donations - forget about flying to DC. And of course there is one group that blindly follows lawyers and goes around spewing wrong info about the bill (392). This hurts the cause. Another partisan bunch is a branch of itserve, the same bunch of crony consultant companies. These were the same folks about whom there were leaked videos of them worried about i140 EAD taking away the leverage they have with employees. These are also folks who go around saying 392 won't help and promise a pie in the sky that serves to undermine the cause. To be honest, there is only one group (Immigration voice) that does this advocacy and they only focus on one thing (hr392) for a good reason - nothing gets done if you don't have focus. It's easy to be naysayer in Hill and be right , the system optimizes for status quo. We of course have folks who will come up with 20 different ideas, without doing anything on the ground. In their pani Puri parties, they will go around saying - 'man you know, I had this perfect vision of how this system should work. It sad that US won't do anything like what I have in mind'. (If you wonder why I am quoting it, I had this experience in person and I am pretty sure if you spoke this issue to 5 people, you can find one such person in your circle).
Well said
Excellent post!
How about an AI based algorithm that reads a person's profile and chooses whom to select. Immigration can decide how many people is needed.
Who gets to be the training data?
On side note since when does sales force give that kind of TC.
They can raise raise the minimum TC for H1B higher? Are the consulting companies lobbying to prevent this? I’m surprised they haven’t done this yet.
Not a popular opinion but: I don't think it can be done. I don't think there is any fair way to compare people from different countries using a single scale. Even within the same country is not easy. A bachelor's from MIT is with more than a master's from University of Phoenix. Between countries it becomes impossible. GPA means different things, countries have different standardized tests, education systems are very different, yet all these factors matter. So I think a single scale won't work. Instead I think you need many scales and take the top people from each scale in each country, possibly using a lottery to hit a quota from among the best people in each scale. For every country make the following lists: - top school - highest GPA - highest education completed - experience at top employers - highest compensation Then have a quota for each country+category and make it proportional to population If necessary hold lotteries to pick from the top people if they can't be strictly ranked. This way you get the top nth percentile from every country in each category. This solves the problem of a GPA in one country not bring comparable to another, to different countries having different standardized tests, to different education systems: make lists unique to each country and take the best from each list in each country. I think that works better than trying to merge into it list when it's impossible to fairly compare between different countries.
Again, let the intellectual orgasm flow. Ideas are cheap, actionable ones arent. Your idea will never see light of day in any bill, since none of this will fly with any of the stakeholders who need to agree to pass the bill.
Ok here is an idea but you won't like it: the current system is better than hr392 because it limits the problem to one country. It's a fucking disaster for that one country, and it's insanely unfair, and screaming out for a solution, but that's better than being a disaster for everyone. Give me a solution that actually doesn't make things worse.
I would rather take all the uncertainty out of it. Earn a Ph.D. or MD at an accredited US institution, get a green card. Earn a Master’s in STEM, get a green card. No quota.
Unfortunately, this will not fly with Republicans, especially far right, who will not agree to 1 more new green card. A version of this has always been talked about. Folks on the Hill call this 'stapling green card to degree' (that's their lingo for this idea).
IDK, just tell them it will MAGA. Correct, this is not original.
I think you meant @trump. G/F and even more so Salesforce can’t do shit.