Posted on 04/03/2017 2:09:26 PM PDT by johnk
"...What it means: This aligns with the administration's focus on reserving the temporary visas for very high-skilled (and higher-paid) professionals while encouraging low- and mid-level jobs to go to American workers instead. The new guidance affects applications for the lottery for 2018 fiscal year that opened Monday..."
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I have lost my last 3 jobs to Indians (Asia that is).
Fine with me, but not the managers who thimk software grows on trees. They don’t have to come here to code.
There should be no H1B visas, period.
What we need instead is to stand on the necks of our college and university administrations until they start producing employable graduates and cut all the destructionist crap from syllabi.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
They can work remotely from India.
It's all but impossible for me to believe that there aren't enough Americans qualified to do "high tech" work to fill available slots.
Lettuce pickers? Maybe.Code writers? No way!
Shut down the H1B program!!!
If public schools quit their liberal indoctrination programs, they’d have time to promote science and math, so Americans could fill these job themselves.
More importantly, U.S. companies are using H-1B visa employees to UNDERCUT AMERICAN WAGES.
This has to stop!
This is fine with me. Everyone on H-1B I've worked with has been a devout leftist.
As with all labor abuse schemes once reality hits 1000's of IT jobs will open up for Americans. I've been in IT for decades and this is long overdue. Your cynical remark noted and it says a lot about you.
This will be a win.
H1B visas are why a third of STEM grads aren’t working in STEM , wages in tech are flat, and employers regularly cut you mid-career (40 and older, if not in your thirties).
If employers were desperate for talent, they wouldn’t be firing people at 35 to replace with Indians.
As stagnant wages go up, IT will be an interesting career again.
It is small step in the right direction but really the whole H-1B visa program is ludicrous and so destructive. It needs to be killed.
Try a Defense contractor, if you’re eligible for a security clearance.
No H-1B’s there.
I’ve read where 3 out of 4 native born Americans STEM graduates can’t get a job in their field.
MAGA! So. Much. Winning! :)
I had a short stint in managing an IT Department during my Army years; man, that was a fun assignment! Loved every minute of it.
It was like herding cats, LOL!
Remote work from India works less well than you might think. I have tons of experience with this, and frankly, the price difference does not make up for the time/quality difference. On-shoring is in fact preferable on many levels.
It’s not a cynical remark.
It is just a reality.
Businesses will seek the lowest cost legal labor.
If they can contract a coding project to someone overseas for a quarter of the cost that it would cost to hire someone in the US they will.
Yep. End the whole damn thing.
I once asked about an apartment in an apartment complex either in burlington or bedford, can’t recall which. I was merely told that they were ‘very expensive’ but the office worker wouldn’t give me a rental price. I learned later they only liked to rent to people from India.
Maybe we should make it against the law to be born in the USA. More and more it seems like a curse more than a blessing.
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