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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by kinkrtyavimoodh on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:02PM (#24536921)
There is a wide gap between the two extremes of "H1B is merely abuse" and "H1B is only for Nobel prize type savants".

Do you know there is no general work visa at all in America, whereby a skilled person can come based on their merit and work in the US?

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by dragonwriter on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:27PM (#24538912)
> Do you know there is no general work visa at all in America, whereby a skilled person can come based on their merit and work in the US?

There are a whole lot of (both immigrant and non-immigrant) work-related skill-based visas in the US immigration system. It's true there is no one generic such visa, but that's because the US immigration systems doesn't use a small number of broad visa types but a large number of hyperspecific ones.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by pandaman on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:25PM (#24538902)
You are correct that there is no geneneral non-immigrant work visa but there are general skilled immigrant visas (EB1A and EB2-NIW).
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