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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:30PM (#24703680)
A minimum wage, set as (eg.) 1.5x avearage wage in that sector in that state would be a good requirement for getting a visa. That would make companies offer more (1.1, 1.2 ... 1.499x average) and get local workers, and if they're still, even with a higher wage, unable to get a worker, they'd get one with an H1B visa.
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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr... by flurben on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:41PM (#24703766)
That is far too low, and far too bureaucratic and far too easy to game.

It should simply be a fixed number of visas allocated to the highest wage applicants, like an auction, end of story.

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