I have had the pleasure of hiring two H1B candidates. One from India and the other from Ghana. They were great employees, courteous, thoughtful and absolutely brilliant.
I paid them what I would have paid anyone else with same skill sets. Overall, it was a great experience and I would do it again in a minute.
Neither gentlemen wanted to become American citizens, they were proud of their own countries and of their families, friends, and countrymen. Both, went back home after a couple years to help bring prosperity to their homelands. Not a bad thing at all if you really stop and think about it.
Note of interest; the fellow from Ghana related to me that his country had been and was still transitioning itself from socialist to a free market economy and that it was good for the people. Indeed, last I heard (within past month) Ghana was still a growing economy...
>>>>> I have had the pleasure of hiring two H1B candidates. <<<<<<<
That’s nice.
But it’s generally not the individual H1B hires who are a problem.
The problem most definitely is the H1B system itself, which is greatly and profitably abused to the expense of the American worker, and the people (both Indians and Americans) who abuse it.
You need to watch this video, and then come back and tell us that the H1B system isn’t perverted and bordering on the criminal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
“Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explain how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified [American] applicants, “