America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away

Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by dudul on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:46PM (#18294065)

As a former H1B, I fully support the second change yes. IIRC, an H1B can be renewed once and last a total of 6 years (apologies if regulations changed in the past 6 years, I haven't followed since I got a GC). 6 years is a long time and should allow application for GC without sponsorship.

I'm not sure the first change is a good idea. Wouldn't it give a huge advantage to bigger companies? Haven't really thought this one through.

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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by merpnderp on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:51PM (#18294129)

I think the first is a great idea. A $450k/year neurosurgeon should get a massive preference over a $45k/year Sharepoint contractor. The highest paid are tautologically in the shortest supply.

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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by hocuspocus on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:16PM (#18295488)

Realistically though, a neurosurgeon would probably be able to immigrate on another type of visa. Same goes for most executives, lawyers, partners at VCs or hedge funds...

An auction based allocation would favor ad selling companies that can pay juniors 200k to do A/B testing.

Then sure, it would partially solve the abuse from cheap IT consultancies, and that's better than nothing. But there would definitely be adverse effects.

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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away by scarface74 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:53PM (#18294147)

How is that different than now? Larger companies can already afford to pay people more and smaller companies have to compete in salary.

Outside of the west coast and FAANG companies, salaries aren’t that crazy. I haven’t seen any difference in comp based on company size in most of the US. They all have to compete for the same talent pool.

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