There are whole IT divisions where there is not a single US citizen or GC holder. Tell me how can one distinguish between projects where the whole project members are H1B holders. Do you expect anyone to complain?
The whole thing feels like a april fools joke to me....
Examples of H-1B fraud indicators may include:
* The H-1B worker is not or will not be paid the wage certified on the
Labor Condition Application (LCA).
* There is a wage disparity between H-1B workers and other workers
performing the same or similar duties, particularly to the detriment
of U.S. workers.
* The H-1B worker is not performing the duties specified in the H-1B
petition, including when the duties are at a higher level than the
position description.
* The H-1B worker has less experience than U.S. workers in similar
positions in the same company.
* The H-1B worker is not working in the intended location as certified
on the LCA.Moreover, please walk me through your "I'll take my ball and go to Canada" ultimatum : if you don't employ a single American, why should Americans care about this particular threat? Are your contributions to the local economy that significant?
We were 5 students from different countries who came here and started the company. Being almost bootstrapped company and pretty small one we had a hard time hiring people who would both pass our bar and willing to work for us. For all the low end work we would simply outsource it to India/Pakistan/Russia and other countries.
>why should Americans care about this particular threat ?
No one needs to care about anything. It is just that we will leave. It is upto Americans to wonder if are worth anything. May be Americans will be better off with it somehow I do not know. But the problem is more business, revenue and potential growth that would move out of the borders permanently.
Almost all employees are from different countries India, China, Japan and UK. There are very few places on earth where we could have met as students. It is a co-incident. If we were studying at Singapore University we would have setup our company there.
As far as the entire company being H1B -- is it even possible that not a single American was available for a job?
H1B is heavily abused.
I've been through this, and it sucks. In the end I got another type of visa, but that cost a lot of energy and money.
Plus, nothing says "Welcome" than waiting several months for a decision in the visa purgatory. So that also discourages high quality applicants who have other choices.
The point is NOT to have 49% of your staff be H1B's in order to reduce costs.
The original rules were fine, let's just get some enforcement, including on the facilitators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
You can clearly see that the top companies using H-1B visas are consulting firms.