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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by diogenescynic on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:41PM (#13361052)
>Immigration Attorneys are making a fortune of this broken system

Those same law firms hire lobbyists to make sure the system remains complicated and inefficient. Also, all the law firms that service tech companies have almost 100% of the work done by recent college grads for very low pay. Ever wondered why your L-1/H-1/I-140 support letter has so many errors? It's because it was a generic template that some recent college grad spent an hour on and you paid $3000 for an attorney to sign the G-28 form. Oh, and many immigration lawyers haven't even passed the Bar exam for the state they practice in--they can practice having passed the Bar in any state. These are the bottom of the barrel law jobs, IMHO.

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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by yellow_viper on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:42PM (#13361800)
Green cards too. My family moved out of America a few months after my dads work had secured us greecards at a total of $350,000 (iirc - for the family of 7). These were voided as we didn't stay in the country long enough to validate them - what a waste.
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by winter_blue on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:51PM (#13362146)
How did it cost $350,000? That's an insane number.
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by yellow_viper on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:18AM (#13363642)
Not sure this was over 10 years ago. A quick search shows that you used to be able to get a greencard through an 'investment' of $50k to the US. It's now risen to $1m but that may very well be how they secured them.
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by ActsJuvenile on Monday January 09, 2017 @10:15PM (#13362254)
You mean $35,000?
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by yellow_viper on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:12AM (#13363624)
was $50,000 per person I believe
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by RedPanda250 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @05:39AM (#13363929)
Are you sure it wasn't investment based EB-5 ?
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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by yellow_viper on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:03PM (#13367814)
No idea, I got told green card - but I was 15 at the time (so not really involved in the process).

He worked for the WSJ and one of the requirements of him taking the role was that we all got green cards.

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Re:H-1B Visas: U.S. Lawmaker Re-Introduces Bill to Tighten R... by baloneyman on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:46PM (#13361100)
I guess it depends on your perspective. Is it the older workers who rake in enormous paychecks for incrementally far less work or is it younger workers who work for much less to make a name for themselves and establish their career?
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