I want to start by saying I love working for Oracle. We are building ☁️ and I believe in the leadership. I have been here for 10 months and love every moment of it However I am having a lot of trouble with the immigration lawyers. When I was in Microsoft immigration was smooth. The recruiter told me Oracle uses the same company BAL and assured me there is nothing to worry. I joined Oracle and I started noticing how hard it is to work with Oracle Bal. I finally figured out that they have a service agreement with Oracle which allows for being slow , having less number of lawyers, mail replies taking longer, etc. All in all I notice a casual approach from these lawyers in comparison to the Bal at Microsoft. I had a 3 year h1b extension approved at Microsoft, but coming here only gets my extension approved for 1 year. I don't know whether this is an Oracle problem or a USCIS problem. Also Green card processing is so slow that I feel my priority date will get current before my Green card is filed. The lawyers are very unresponsive and the management does not care. Raised it multiple times with my manager to no avail. So my advice to people on visa, stay away. Also feel free to share what worked for you. Are you guys facing something similar TC 348k
I'm so thankful I don't have to deal with my country's immigration system
You are the lucky one
I just transferred to Oracle on my green card that was applied by my previous employer. I got 3 years on my visa. I did have to push BAL a little bit but I guess I should keep in mind that they will need to pushed to have my green card transferred over to Oracle. Thanks for the heads up
I read that 1 year extension is a new thing from DJT
Oracle reuses old LCAs - your H1B may have been filed against an LCA with only 1 yr remaining. These are all cost-cutting measures.. nothing to do with BAL or USCIS.
Oh no. This makes sense. But won't they have to keep renewing it which in turn causes more money
Technically yes. But they have observed that people commonly leave before an extension is necessary, so it makes sense to reuse old stuff as much as possible :)
I am with Oracle for last few years. I ended up with BAL attorneys which were freshers and lacked basic knowledge plus were very slow in response. I am not sure if this the issue with Oracle contract with BAL. MS might have opted for premium service. Getting 1-2 years extension is issue with Oracle because I think they get blanket labor approvals in bulk and use it for next few months. The worst part is most of the h1b employees (non-oci) gets their salary increment when they get their h1b renewed as that time they fall in the newer salary range as defined in the new labor. Then Oracle updates their salary to the lower limit (not even a dollar more). On top of that, their manager tries to take the credit for the salary hike but most of them know why the salary increased.
They promised to apply for my GC within 6 months of joining, but applied after 21/2 years. Even now they are supposed to apply for I-140 and I have already paid from my pocket for premium and still it’s been more than 2 months and they still haven’t applied for it. I have sent 10 follow up emails. My manager/org don’t give a damn. Already fed up and will be changing soon.
That should affect the PERM and not I-140
Then oracle is weird! No other logical explanation!🤔
I’m on same boat. Getting pissed off with Oracle immigration. I blindly trusted my hiring manager before joining. You haven’t seen reviews here on Blind before joining ?
I trusted the recruiter. I learned it the hard way. Whenever I raise immigration no one even replies. Especially the Green card filling.