H1-B Visa is a ban on citizenship for all STEM degrees. Engineering degrees are money losers for many because managers are US citizens but demand foreigners beneath.
75% of Silicon Valley are foreigners.
Now how much is your child’s tech degree worth when the industry demands foreigners??
> Now how much is your child’s tech degree worth when the industry demands foreigners?? <
Excellent point. Let’s hope Trump will do something to turn that around.
H1-B Visa is a ban on citizenship for all STEM degrees. Engineering degrees are money losers for many because managers are US citizens but demand foreigners beneath.
75% of Silicon Valley are foreigners.
Now how much is your child’s tech degree worth when the industry demands foreigners??
The visa problem starts long before H-1b Visas are awarded. It starts freshman year in college—unlike H-1B Visas which have caps on the number awarded annually, with student visas, there are no caps on the number of student visas awarded.
Also, there are internship incentives for keeping those foreign student here as newly graduated workers that make it more attractive for companies like google to hire foreign students right out of school than hiring US students. Those internships can last a couple years.
The internship factor with unlimited student visas creates a bottleneck when the foreign newly graduated interns have to switch to the limited H-1b Visa program after a couple years. This creates a foreign student retention problem for tech companies...This is a major reason why all the tech companies have been fiercely lobbying to get the H-1b caps increased—so they can keep the foreign students they hired right out of school on student interneships as employees on H-1b Visas...all the while paying them less as many of them are the equivalent of twenty-first century indentured servants.
I hope some enterprising journalist or writer will blow the lid sky high on this outrageous scam.
University of Illinois actually sends recruiters to China to recruit students. It’s nickname is University of China... The university, a STATE school, is taxpayer supported, yet Illinois taxpayers are finding it increasingly difficult to send their students there.
My son, a computer engineer who works in San Jose, has suggested that US students interested in STEM/computers focus on hardware and firmware as many of the foreign training programs don’t have the resources to purchase current top quality hardware like US schools can purchase. date hardware.
If I had a student looking for a major, I would be likely be suggesting a major that would prepare for a career in Big Data in private sector. I think there is huge demand there, and it is not going down anywhere soon.
Plenty of unemployed engineers in Houston.