Posted on 05/26/2019 3:02:42 PM PDT by NobleFree
An IT company based in Silicon Valley has filed a lawsuit against the United States government for denying an H-1B visa to an Indian techie.
[….] The company asserts USCIS acted capriciously when they denied Anisetty the visa stating his position did not meet the criterion that "a baccalaureate or higher degree or its equivalent is normally the minimum requirement for entry into the particular position."
According to Xterra, they had submitted all evidentiary documents as requested which proved that Anisetty's appointment as Business Systems Analyst qualified all four criteria for an H-1B specialty occupation, yet, the USCIS gave no explanation for denying the company's petition for granting a visa. […]
Currently, Anisetty holds valid H-4 dependent status through his wife, the principal beneficiary of an H-1B application. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at in.news.yahoo.com ...
Definitely correct based on my observation. When my outfit hired me back in early 1960’s, they just assumed all Indians would be just as good as me, and they literally hired any Indian engineer who walked in through the door.
India is a very large country, with population 4 times bigger than United States. On top of that India has been invaded by foreigners for 5000 years for whatever reasons, beginning with the Aryan nomads invading 4000 years ago. Point is not all Indians are alike. Not any more than all Americans are the same.
I believe in judging each individual based on their capabilities and not based on their race or national origin. We are all definitely not alike in capabilities.
The so called free trade has limits. Every country has the responsibility to protect indigenous citizens. India has excess of techies and Indians have another advantage of knowing English better than Chinese, Russians or East Europeans where most techies come from. So American outfits exploit that supply by importing cheaper foreign workers.
It is same situation in manufacturing. I have seen first hand how many manufacturing jobs from Chicago area were exported to China & other SE Asian countries. Result is we have a huge trade deficit and loss of millions of middle class manufacturing jobs. Again, the Billionaires make bigger profits by exporting manufacturing to cheap labor countries. United States has lost more wealth by exporting manufacturing, than any other cause.
As soon as Trump said he wanted to make better trade deals, I became a fan and supporter. That is the most important issue to remain prosperous.
Are you aware even in medical field, many services such as reading X-Rays is done by medical people in other countries?
Yes, and? If i’m an employer, I would go with equal skills for one-third the cost. Or three times the manpower for the same cost. It’s called capitalism.
Then it's an *entirely* different kettle of fish.
It's called "smart business" (MBA).
Employees are “shocked,” Fox News reported, because CNN Health “is considered successful” and the network had just firmly denied layoff rumors earlier this month. In fact, executive vice president Allison Gollust told Fox News on May 7 that there were “no mass layoffs” in the works.
“I have no idea where that crazy rumor came from,” she said. “We have recently offered a voluntary buyout option for employees, and just over 100 people voluntarily decided to take it. That’s it. We have nearly 4,000 people at CNN … and around 100 of them exercised the option for a program that was offered. That’s it. Those are the facts.”
...guess who got kept?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Source?
CNN LAYS OFF ALMOST ENTIRE DIVISION, SURPRISES EMPLOYEES AS ‘CRAZY RUMOR’ COMES TRUE
I bet that'll make @entropy12 cream his pants.
I bet the count is an awful lot higher than that.
H1-B is to skilled what illegals are to unskilled. It is wholesale corrupt, abused and Cabot be fixed. It needs abolished
If you have never had to QC or troubleshoot code done by H1Bs or by contracted Indian companies then you have never seen the toils of hell.
Absolute crap, no accountability, no pride in the job being done correctly...just the job is done it’s someone else’s problem now. Where is the paycheck?
There is a lot more that could be said but time is at a premium.
All skills can be made equal...on paper. In practice the skills often turn out to be only on paper.
It will end up costing twice as much as the cut rate salaries given to fix the problems created by the paper skilled. You get what you pay for and what you verify as being truly skilled.
I think that H1-B visa should be sold for 1 million dollars each per year. If the company thinks that the visa holders skills are so unique that they must import the person, the 1 million dollars is a small price to pay. The 1 million dollars must be paid up front and is non-refundable even if the person dies, goes back home, disappears, etc.
If they company is found replacing US workers then there should be a 10 million dollar fine and jailing of the CEO, CFO, CRO and other top level executives for 2 years per employee illegally hired under the visa program.
> “I understand completely why US citizens do not like H1-B visa foreign workers. However the drumbeat is to single out Indian workers as the culprits.”
Given the fact that Indians are the biggest beneficiaries of all H-1Bs issued, most people’s only experience with H-1B workers are with Indians. Claiming they are being ‘singled out’ is inaccurate when people are simply relating their not-so-positive experience which happens to all involve Indians, and only Indians.
Have only skimmed the comments and I must have missed the posts where Indians are being blamed as ‘culprits’ of H-1Bs, kindly point me to one example that supports your allegation and I will sympathize with your posts.
We are the number one destination of foreign students worldwide, and we are supposedly the most technologically advanced nation on earth, yet we need hundreds of thousands of people educated in less-developed countries because they possess the skills we can’t find here.
The entire premise of H-1b is so patently false it is ludicrous.
Pick that nit - "playing the race card" fits like a glove.
Except that the credits won’t transfer. A 4-year degree from India might be worth 90 credits.
I knew an Indian fellow some years ago - tried to sit for the Engineer-in-Training exam. The Society of Professional Engineers said his degree was worth 90 credits. He would have had to take 2-3 semesters at an American college to be qualified to sit for the exam.
Surely not...most will assume they are underqualified.
What do you expect people to do?
Dear Mr. Congressman,
I graduated with a B.S. and M.S., and sent out hundreds of resumes, and didn’t hear back from anyone. I think the Feds are handing out too many H1B’s. Obviously I can’t prove that.
I would hope there are a huge number of other criteria apart from holding a bachelor’s degree to get an H1B.
“Indians are being hired every where”...paraphrasing.
3 for 1 makes no business sense. Those H1-B salaries can’t possibly be 1/3 of yours. May be the business was expanding? IDK....otherwise makes no sense.
DO NOT WRITE LETTERS...they are seldom read!
Get on the phone with your congressman’s office and say loudly “why are you allowing replacing Americans with H1-B foreign workers in HUGE NUMBERS? Do you not care a whit about American citizens?”
Call every other day, it only takes 5 minutes of time.
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