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. https://m.facebook.com/home.php?ref=bookmarks#!/story.php?story_fbid=1728035177262699&id=243363639063201
I am against removing per country cap. I wish you all the best.
Me too for now. 1.3 BILLION people in India. 1.3 BILLION people in China. Those are just two countries. And you want to eliminate per country limit? What an insane idea. You want to make it the United States of India and China? No Thanks. Merit based immigration and h1b reform must happen before any per country limit is removed.
Isn't merit based immigration different from per country im migration?
BEFORE the per country limit is removed, we need legislation passed to majorly reform h1b, and also passing legislation that implements merit based immigration. From what I've read on it, there are no merit based provisions in hr 392. Correct me if I'm wrong and cite the source. If there are no merit based provisions then I oppose it 100%. RAISE act would be better due to merit based provisions.
The green card system for employment-based immigrants, which is what HR392 fixes, already has a merit system with different preferences. https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/employment-based The employment-based system itself is smaller than the family/chain migration system, but any bill which changes numbers will not have bipartisan support.
RAISE would be better, but it’s realistically not going to happen because they don’t have the votes.
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
^^^^^ THIS ^^^^ this will require 2/3 Congress because trump will not sign this. Without strict merit based provisions Trump will veto, as he should. .... For Trump to sign it, they would need to add many provisions that make it more similar to the RAISE act. So don't waste too much of your time with putting your support behind hr 392 in its current form.
India is in its state because it is poor and it has a lot of people in it. Not because it has Indians in it. By the way part of the reason why it is poor is because the British screwed us for 200 years. San Jose has a lot of Indians. It also has more wealth and a better standard of living than Alabama. Would you draw a conclusion that people from Alabama are an inferior race? I mean if skin color can make you a separate intellectually inferior race then I am sure fat content and sun burns can make you one too.
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.
And why is that a good thing?
I dunno mate, I think most people understood perfectly. They specifically don't want a majority of Indians to keep things balanced.
Incompetant . How ?
^^ IBM level.
This is not gonna pass. It's so blatantly unfair.
Why is removal of race based restriction unfair? Interested in your viewpoint
Because the number if Indian applications will clog up the systems for all other nationalities and races, negatively impacting diversity. I don't see either Republicans or Democrats liking this one much. #DiversityFirst
Ok so care more about diversity and not about merit, gotcha, carry on I see your reasoning
Do you honestly think that the tens of thousands of Indian "consultants" working in the US have real merit?
@YQK chillax bro, there is so much hate in your arguments that it's drowning any logic. It's okay to vehemently disagree, no need to be racist
@YQKY82 really you in tech and educated? And proud to say such a racist comment?
Leaving blind cause of racism, the app has unfortunately turned into racism against various people.There is a big line between trolling and racism. I hope blind takes action against these people, (at the very least banning them) Calling apes,curry against Indians is clear racism and would invite a jail sentence in real, it's clear blind has failed Was involved in a lot of nice tech discussions otherwise.Thanks to a lot to those people
You've been so wild and active on Blind, I think you just gonna change your username and comment right back on this thread.
@ghoop is busted
There are 300+ senators?
100 senators and 435 in the house of representives