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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by briandear on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:14AM (#15457129)
To be clear, H1B isn’t an immigrant visa. It’s a temporary skilled worker visa. There are other visas designed for skilled immigrants. Someone on an H1B isn’t an immigrant so of course the system would be “broken” when expecting H1B to result in a green card. It’s no different than expecting a tourist visa to be the first step to getting a residency visa. H1B was never implemented as a pathway to permanent residency.

Still that aside, great ‘hack’ and congrats on getting your Canadian residency!

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by t1o5 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:17AM (#15457406)
Thats wrong information. H1B is a “dual intent” visa.

Its broken because it was really intended for exceptionally skilled workers. But currently its a lottery. USCIS just takes the word of the company applying for it and grants the visa. This loophole is being exploited by numerous body shops. That is reason why there are low quality H1B workers. There are various other problems like employee mobility, spouses of H1B is not free to work in the land of the free. Country of birth based quotas for permanent residency, rather than skills or points based quotas.

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