Posted on 10/19/2018 6:06:51 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Time appears nearly up for an estimated 100,000 foreign citizens working in the U.S. under a special authorization for spouses of foreign workers here on the controversial H-1B visa. The federal government, which has been promising since late 2017 to ban these H-4 visa holders from working, has just put out a notice that the new rule will be issued sometime next month.
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US jobs for US citizens.
Not soon enough. Give them 30 days to leave the US. No exceptions. Bye and good riddance.
Great we can get our IT jobs back for US Citizens...
Que the federal district court judges to issue injunctions that block implementation of this perfectly rational and legal policy.
This still won’t stop the BS pulled by tech companies requiring 5 years of experience on an application/OS/software that’s been out for 3 years so they can disqualify old white IT guys who would draw big bucks.
This rule (successfully used in Japan) limits the number of foreign nationals to those who really are better than their American counterparts for the job. It also has the great side affect of making them tend to be grateful to their host country for the opportunity rather than resentful for not doing more.
How about preventing the children they give birth to on US soil being considered as US citizens?
Foreigners have no right to work. It’s a privilege that can be taken away.
Hopefully they will all go home.
The problem with any of these visas, are the foreign companies that control them. American visa’s should not be controlled by foreign companies who can manipulate foreign workers. There are companies, mostly Indian companies, who get these Asian workers for almost nothing. They give them visa’s and get them jobs in America with large American companies. The Indian company gets a percentage. The American company gets cheap workers that they can fire at the drop of the hat, because they are just consultants. And the foreign worker tries very hard to get hired on by the American company full time as a real employee, because they are getting so little pay and benefits. This system is very destructive. If foreign workers have control of their own visas, and require American companies to sponsor them, then we get good foreign workers without the lower salaries. As it is now. Its like slave labor in America. And many of them are family members of those who have legit H1-Bs.
H1B is a scam, the whole program needs GONE... its abused wholesale... and is NOTHING but a wage depressor for skilled workers.
What is hidden here are the numbers. We are told that there will be 60,000 H-1B visas give out each year. What we are not told is that this number is times two as each H-1B gets to bring his or her H-4 visa spouse. So instead of 60,000 foreign workers each year in reality it is 120,000.
H-1B is evil, kill it altogether.
Not all IT jobs. These are the spouses of IT workers on H1B. Some of them are cashiers at Walmart.
I understand this, what I am saying is the H1B program itself is a SCAM.... Its wholesale abused, and while getting rid of the H-4 work is an improvement, the entire H1-B Program itself is garbage, wholesale abused, and needs GONE.
Working or Collecting GA takes away a job or assistance from Americans...
That's actually starting to happen. The bar now for and H-1B visa is getting higher. Much more regulatory compliance actions required to get and RENEW one.
I know over a dozen that have already gone home to India and are NOT coming back.
That. Period.
There is some scuttlebutt that the new rule will only stop the issuance of NEW H4’s. That those who already have them will be allowed to keep them.
Well I am seeing more jobs in IT open back up as of recent, was recently laid off from Verizon after 15 yrs of service in IT with them along with 1500 fellow coworkers and landed a decent contractor to hire position..
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