Excellent.There are plenty of US citizens trained to do computer work...you’ll just have to pay them a little more.
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I agree, although I am assuming you need something a little bit more specialized than the ability to use word & excel, I still think it’s reduculous that they can’t (won’t) train U.S. citizens to with these skills. Honestly, Indians all have these specialized silicon valley skill sets and no American’s have them? I call bull. This has to be about money.
Any industrious American can learn plenty of tech skills free online.
“I still think it’s reduculous that they can’t (won’t) train U.S. citizens to with these skills.”
They are being trained. The problem is not lack of possible employees to be employed. It is that foreign H1B invites are taking over jobs that our US youth could fill. And cost is the calculation that keeps them coming. Along with a commitment to some third world countries started by the Obama administration (big surprise) to get them here to take over and clobber our employment numbers.
The H-1B is a visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101 which allows U.S. employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the United States. Effective January 17, 2017, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services modified the rules to allow a grace period of up to 60 days but in practice as long as a green card application is pending they are allowed to stay. In 2015, there were 348,669 applicants for the H-1B filed of which 275,317 were approved. The numbers are hard to find now but are increasing and spreading out into other fields of computer work requirements.
But, on April 18, 2017 President Trump signed a “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order which sets broad policy intentions directing federal agencies to propose reforms to the H-1B visa system that currently allows extended stay for temporary skilled workers which allows transition into citizenship without any purview of federal discernment and regulations or quotas that balances growing job needs of American population.
On June 28, 2018 the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Department (USCIS) came up with a new rule that will make US deport those whose request for the visa extension is rejected. The duration of stay is three years, extendable to six years. An exception to maximum length of stay applies in certain circumstances. The maximum duration of the H-1B visa is ten years for exceptional United States Department of Defense project related work. They can get off the visa program by becoming US citizens. To further any information of this past, google AC 21.
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