Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens’: report

Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by Karishmra1234 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:41PM (#17823249)

You are right but this sort of news reporting is usually cover fire for the current administration and arbitrary functioning of USCICS. Even paying less is not a problem for visa holders as long as it is higher than the wage floors set by Labour department. I believe for H1b it is like 80K or so.

All companies I know pay less to visa holders for following reasons and even lesser if you are Indian or Chinese national.

- They have to spend resources worth $10K for visa transfer. It is higher for visa petition. - they have to spend addtional $3k per year for renewals. - Processing an EB2/EB3 petition costs around $30k for the company in resources.

I think it is unfair to even expect that Cisco must match penny to penny the salary.

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Re:Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hirin... by dahdum on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:07PM (#17823398)

$30k sounds significantly higher than my experience, do you have any background on that? Even for a small company, we paid $5-10k to process applications and sponsor a green card IIRC.

Cisco would also have the scale to significantly cut attorney costs.

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