I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by tinkyada on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:39PM (#15962712)

Don't know if this is the forum to ask or you have the knowledge but i'll ask anyway. Is there a reason why India alone receives more than 70% of all H1b visa (more than twice every other country combined)? Is this by design or accident? (Also I find most immigration question forums tend to be dominated/overwhelmed by Indians and their specific immigration questions) *update with relevant link: https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h...

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by baseethrowaway on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:42PM (#15962753)

Statistics.

Imagine 70% of all applicants being Indian nationals. Randomly sample all the applicants and with a big enough sample size, the distribution will be the same, i.e. ~70% of your samples will be Indian nationals.

Countries that have the most people in the world have the most people in the H-1B application process as well. China and India are my guesses, without looking at the publicly available data on H-1B applications. You don't see as many Chinese people speaking about it online because they, on average, don't speak English as well as people from India.

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by analyst74 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:31PM (#15964500)

I'm surprised to see a large gap between Indian and Chinese (6:1). Sampling SoMa rush hour traffic, I would expected something like 3:2 to or even 1:1 ratio.

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by Gerrymander on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:53PM (#15965677)

Sf and the bay area has a large Chinese population that has been here for a long time (from before the times of the Gold Rush). A good chunk of the people you see are probably Chinese americans, not H1b/Green card holders

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by Gerrymander on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:57PM (#15965705)

You also have to account for the fact that many indian IT shops are actively gaming the system. There's a lot of visa fraud wrt H-1B primarily from india.

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by mooreds on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:52PM (#15962869)

Here's the PDF if you want to crunch the numbers:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Re...

This is FY 2011-2012, not sure if there are more recent PDFs.

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by baseethrowaway on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:54PM (#15962902)

We can go for the raw data.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm#...

170+ MB .xlsx. Tried doing some stuff with it on a 12 core 64 GB RAM workstation. Took way too long and LibreOffice crashed a few times.

Google Sheets doesn't want to touch it even.

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by kofejnik on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:11AM (#15967889)

pandas is your friend

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