Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by lawnchair_larry on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:08PM
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Country quotas are bad. It’s not Indians that are the problem, it’s specifically the Indian body shops. No sense penalizing the good candidates who are doing things right.
American tech giants are the ones to blame for this problem. They are hiring massive amounts of contractors (“vendors”) through these companies so they don’t have to have FTEs on their balance sheet. They’ll go away on their own once the market stops supporting them.
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by GordonS on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:04PM
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This is a good point, but realistically, most of the body shops are based in India, and that's not likely to change.
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by mavelikara on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:30PM
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> If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?
How does that help the stated issue?
I think you are asking to be rewarded for the hard work it took you to be born in a tiny low-population country. /s
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by canttestthis on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:35AM
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> I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't.
This comment is just bordering on being inappropriate. The H1-B is a skilled worker program. Having a per country cap makes absolutely no sense.
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by redditmigrant on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:23AM
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The term country quotas makes me so mad. Country quotas in the GC system are absolutely awful, because they base things on the one thing you cant change, where you were born. They favor iddly biddly countries like NZ, where the mediocre Kiwis get GCs way before well qualified and much better compensated Indians. (If you sense the condescension towards NZ in the previous sentence, its intentional. Its to give you a sense for how an Indian felt reading your post.)
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by nxc18 on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:43PM
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Some companies would be decimated (literally) by a move from 60k to 130k... But it would definitely cut down on abuse or result in a big raise for the locals.
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by RandomInteger4 on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:08PM
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I don't think they would be decimated; they would just have to alter the heuristics of the automated resume -> trash bin filters so that they select from the candidates they've been ignoring for absurd reasons.
Re:H-1B visa shift may favor tech companies
by surfallday on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:33PM
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I was selected in this year's lottery in April and am still waiting for them to start processing the case -- according to their web site it could easily take until sometime in February, ten months after submitting the paperwork. Thank goodness I'm able to do contract work for the company remotely in the meantime.
As for pushing US salaries down ... my salary is well into six figures, thank you. And was, even in my previous job, in Moscow.
If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?
Or, just get moving with the proposed increase in the minimum salary from $60k to $130k. I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't.
And the processing times are criminal. It's probably going to be a year from submitting the paperwork until actually moving to the US -- and with six months of the three years of the visa (starting October 1) already gone.
Getting the Russian equivalent "Highly Skilled Specialist" visa (3 years, plus one 3 year renewal, minimum salary 2 million rubles a year) only took two months.