Its not fair to both Americans and existing Visa workers who got laid off. Hundreds of applicants in US are competing for One job opening, plus thousands of applicants in India. More than 100,000 tech workers were laid off in the past 5 months. Not to mention way more tech workers were laid off last year and still can’t find a job
Agreed
So what category are you in currently? H1B or American citizen?
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The whole system is abused by software. The h1b is in fact designed to do what you say -- allow specific exemption for temporary residence based on a specific need that cannot be filled nationally. So from a legal perspective you are correct. However, you don't have any politicians in a nut sack Kung fu grip through dark money, so it's unlikely your plea will be heard by the powers that be
Why don’t u tell your congress representatives instead of crying in blind ?
Don’t disagree. I would argue further and say also no extensions.
Haven’t you seen in the news that labor market is strong as never, lowest unemployment in years, people can get jobs easily?🤣
Service jobs that pay minimum wage are plentiful. Tech jobs are not.
H1B is meant to get the best talent into the US. It is (sadly) not meant to offer any protection for those visa holders. It has always been the game. There’s no point in cribbing about it.
That may be the intent but that's not what happens. Cheap engineers are brought in through H1B and displace equally skilled American workers. You have to pay the American worker more and can't threaten them with terminating their employment and having them scramble for another job before they get kicked out of the country. There's lots of advantages of hiring H1B from an employer perspective. Low wages and power.
lot of my indian colleagues use the word "cribbing" . is that an indian english thing like " revert back" .
In general, H1B allows mediocre to low skilled engineers to take jobs away from equally skilled US workers that would demand a higher wage. Kudos to them and I'm happy for them. Equally skilled American software engineers can't compete with Indians and 996 Chinese engineers. I support free markets and capitalism, but if you're benefiting from the U.S. tax code, its laws, and the security of operating within the United States, you should be required to pay fines or taxes when outsourcing labor outside the U.S. or heavily using H1B.
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