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A comment on H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colleges over American grads. Parent comment

Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by htfy96 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:21AM (#19005282)
The real problem is the path from L1/OPT -> H1B -> green card is purely based on how many years you have worked in the US and performed as some kind of lottery. The transition may take at least 8 years, almost identical for highly-educated Top-N employees & questionably-legal "labors" from IT Consulting Companies (there are lots of fake identities/backgrounds in these companies' H1-B applications).
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by pertymcpert on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:56AM (#19005778)
Why would an L1 want to go to H1-B instead of going straight to green card?
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by untog on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:07AM (#19006327)
IIRC it's a lot more difficult (impossible?) to transfer an L1 between employers, whereas an H1B can be transferred.
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Re:H-1B: Oracle favored hiring foreign graduates of US colle... by airstrike on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:03AM (#19006312)
They wouldn't
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