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H-1B visa applicants being diverted to O visa: US Senator
The Economic Times ^ | July 20, 2017 | The Press Trust of India

Posted on 07/20/2017 10:12:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A top American Senator today alleged that potential H-1B applicants are being advised to apply for an O visa instead of the numerically capped H-1B visas intended for highly-skilled workers to bypass legal restrictions on employment visas.

While H-1B visa is for foreign guest workers with high skilled capabilities, O visa programme, is intended for use by those who have extraordinary abilities...

(Excerpt) Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: h1b; immigration; ovisa; visas
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1 posted on 07/20/2017 10:12:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

O visa = Oh you’re not getting in ?


2 posted on 07/20/2017 10:13:31 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: butlerweave

Those from Mexico work like mules. Gotta take care of their families. Is that the future? We need achievers. Americans are too lazy. Gotta pay for that tattoo. There you have it.


3 posted on 07/20/2017 10:18:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We haven’t had Americans apply for IT jobs in Dallas in a decade... we can’t even find HB1’s anymore... Too few Americans are getting STEM degrees...


4 posted on 07/20/2017 10:18:29 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

M-Visa increases needed!

M-Visa is Manager Visa which brings guest Managers, CEOs, CFOs, Supervisors from African nations.

Our U.S. CEOs are marxist socialists from silicon valley, and we need replacements.


5 posted on 07/20/2017 10:20:23 AM PDT by TheNext (RETROACTIVE REFUND & REPEAL of ACA.)
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To: TexasGunLover

I have been thinking of moving to Texas... got anything good coming up?

Me and Laz both


6 posted on 07/20/2017 10:21:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: TheNext

Too bad there’s not a visa available to replace members of the Democrat media, as well as our disappointing politicians.


7 posted on 07/20/2017 10:24:35 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

True. They do work. But they also draw every benefit available for their American born children while lieing about what they make. I worked for our welfare department. Seen it.
I’d have a lot more respect for them if they just worked and didn’t rely on the government/taxpayers to take care of their kids. They think just because their kids are born here it’s up to us to care for them.


8 posted on 07/20/2017 10:26:25 AM PDT by sheana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

O visas are supposed to be temporary work visas for performers and athletes. They are also occasionally used for paid guest lecturers at Universities or corporations.

They are not supposed to be for run-of-the-mill IT workers, and the Trump Administration had better not allow this abuse of the O visa program to happen.


9 posted on 07/20/2017 10:26:47 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Increase the mimum pay for O visa holders. If they’re that extraordinary, then they deserve $50K a month.


10 posted on 07/20/2017 10:28:12 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: sheana

Their kids don’t do well enough in school. That’s where India folks come in. How about disillusioned Europeans? Blend in better. American tourists can interview the entire family for a traditional meal. Racist? Do what’s best. It ain’t welfare.


11 posted on 07/20/2017 10:29:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: TexasGunLover
We haven’t had Americans apply for IT jobs in Dallas in a decade... we can’t even find HB1’s anymore... Too few Americans are getting STEM degrees...

Really. No shortage in Madison or Chicago last I checked a few years ago. What kind of pay are you offering?
12 posted on 07/20/2017 10:33:20 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: TexasGunLover

There’s an H1-B outsourcing group on Facebook, with plenty of now-unemployed US workers posting there. I’d bet your employer could find candidates there, by close of business today.


13 posted on 07/20/2017 10:34:39 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: sheana
They think just because their kids are born here it’s up to us to care for them.

They used to call it crazy money. They knew it was insane for us to give people money for walking across the border and setting a utility pole in order to get residence.

If you had a government building down the street from your home with a sign out front saying free money here, just apply. Wouldn't you be sort of foolish not to take it?

14 posted on 07/20/2017 10:34:43 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: TheNext

How about SOTH Visas? I’d like a foreigner to replace Paul Ryan.


15 posted on 07/20/2017 10:38:02 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Their kids all turn into thugs. I live in an area overrun with illegals. I don’t know why but honest, hard working illegal parents raise thugs. Maybe it’s the school system. I don’t know exactly why.


16 posted on 07/20/2017 10:39:05 AM PDT by sheana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good.

Keep finding those loopholes and advertising them so they too can be shut down.


17 posted on 07/20/2017 10:46:05 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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H-1B = 6 years max.
O = no max.

Why bother with visas? Just throw out the welcome mat and hand them a free perks packet on their way in.


18 posted on 07/20/2017 10:56:41 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Yo-Yo
O visas are supposed to be temporary work visas for performers and athletes.

I think you are only partially right. There are a few types of O visas and they don't necessarily have to have anything to do with performers or athletes..... it can be related to medicine, physics, engineering, education or other vocations. The criterion is just that the person is recognized internationally as being an expert in his/her field and can provide evidence of that expertise.

19 posted on 07/20/2017 11:00:17 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Mamzelle
How about SOTH Visas? I’d like a foreigner to replace Paul Ryan.

Nigel Farage

20 posted on 07/20/2017 11:07:17 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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