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Re:A serious case for dynamic scoring (immigration) by samvher on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:59PM (#37328116)
Interesting idea. I'd argue that while salary correlates with value, it's not the same though. It seems most likely to me that this mechanism would just reserve the privilege of employing immigrants to a few high income sectors, rather than filter the most skilled immigrants evenly across sectors.

To make it more concrete, it would be nice if NGOs could hire foreign talent just as effectively as Google can.

Re:A serious case for dynamic scoring (immigration) by reaperman on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:20PM (#37328414)
I'm split on this. In the case where they need someone who has specific local knowledge and connections in the foreign locale they're serving, it makes sense. But I fear this would still be used to hire full-stack devs at non-profits for $65,000/year.
Re:A serious case for dynamic scoring (immigration) by ftyers on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:15PM (#37328342)
I don't think NGOs can currently sponsor H1Bs... But maybe I'm wrong...
Re:A serious case for dynamic scoring (immigration) by slt2021 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @04:28PM (#37328553)
not every NGOs, only universities and associated non-profities can sponsor any H-1B without going through the lottery

"Universities and related nonprofit entities, nonprofit research organizations and government research organizations are exempt from the cap"