U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers

Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by mc32 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:01PM (#19041614)

Punish employers with heavy fines for e-verify violations. If no one hires you, no reason to stick around. This is what Japan does, Korea, Taiwan, etc. The US is way lenient on illegal entry and accommodating to irregular workers. In many countries the only way you get around that is if you work with the local mobsters --so only highly risk taking indivs take that opportunity.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by wyldfire on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:20PM (#19041720)

IIRC employers avoid this liability by executing the fraud themselves. There's no e-verify violation because they use legitimate SSNs from a living person, fraudulently. The workers aren't the problem, the employers are.

Legislators and govt executives look the other way in order to preserve competitive agriculture.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by mc32 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:24PM (#19041746)

Some restauranteurs and other cash businesses try and pull fast ones on the IRS. So the IRS conducts audits and has agents case suspect establishments. No reason DHS/ICE, whatever cannot do the same and jail fraudsters. If they, the Feds, can jail Martha Stewart on unrelated technicalities, they can jail these fraudsters. Start at the top, target big ones and work your way down to the small ones (they'll get the news and come correct).

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by ohithereyou on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:30AM (#19045411)

Martha Stewart, before she was a star, worked as a stockbroker and knew or should have known what she did was wrong.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by mc32 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:51AM (#19046195)

Could be, but they didn’t get her on anything related stock trading and instead got her for “lying”. My point is, even if they are unable to catch them red handed (you’d have to be inept), ghetto can always find alternative methods to find someone guilty.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by ohithereyou on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:25PM (#19047858)

Is your position that lying to federal investigators is okay and should not be punished?

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by stale2002 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:32PM (#19041792)

Sure, so what we can do is punish employers who are found later to have employed people illegally.

IE, if you get "tricked" via a stolen SSN, then the business gets punished regardless.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by skybrian on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:55PM (#19041887)

It's my understanding that farmers avoid this by subcontracting. They don't hire migrant workers themselves. When you're desperate to get the harvest in, you don't vet your subcontractors too closely if they say they can do the job.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by markdown on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:07PM (#19041648)

What is e-verify?

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by grzm on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:08PM (#19041653)

https://www.e-verify.gov

> "ABOUT E-VERIFY"

> "E-Verify is a web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States. E-Verify employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees by electronically matching information provided by employees on the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, against records available to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by markdown on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:14PM (#19041686)

Thanks.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by mc32 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:08PM (#19041654)

E-Verify dot gov. [https://www.e-verify.gov]

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by FakeComments on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:59PM (#19041601)

E-verify flags them as not having valid work authorization when their visa expires.

If they reliably can’t find work when here illegally, then there’s less incentive to be here illegally.

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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers by ALittleLight on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:59PM (#19041606)

e-verify. If they don't have a job and regular income it won't make sense for them to stay.

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