Posted on 12/08/2019 12:08:33 AM PST by KingofZion
The Trump administration announced a new process to apply for H-1B visas, requiring applicants to preregister online for an initial lottery before filing their full petitions for the coveted visas for highly skilled foreign workers.
Under the new process, employers must register between March 1-20 to determine who will be selected to apply for the visas, which allow holders to live and work in the U.S. for up to three years at a time, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday.
Under the previous system, U.S. employers prepped their applicants’ full petitions, which cost thousands of dollars to file, to enter a lottery that typically began on April 1.
The new system, USCIS said, is intended to streamline that process. Employers now will be required to pay $10 to enter their applicants’ names into an electronic lottery, and those who receive a registration number can then submit full applications with the associated fees, which can range from about $1,000 to more than $6,000.
*** But the change has raised fears among U.S. employers that, with a lower financial and paperwork barrier to entry, the system will be flooded with many more applications than in previous years. USCIS said late Friday that its system would control for frivolous applications and prevent multiple applications for the same person.
In the past few years, employers have filed about 200,000 applications for roughly 85,000 H-1B slots. Most research institutions, including universities and government institutions like the National Institutes of Health, can apply for an unlimited number of visas.
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It seems to make things easier by not requiring as much money up front.
From thousands to 10. You pay the thousands later still but by then you’re likely getting one.
Rs will be of NO HELP on this one.
An R senator was the one pushing for increase in these.
An R looking to move up the ladder could make his bones fighting this thing tooth and nail.
Be a crusader against it and then run for higher office on it.
If he lives :)
The bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China.
My congressman co-sponsored this garbage and after catching h*** from constituents about it, he ended up voting against it. Too late. He co-sponsored it to begin with and we won't forget.
Close the country for at least a decade. No work or school visas, except musicians, because that’s legitimate temporary work.
Mike Lee should be prosecuted for treason.
Add to that, any women that comes here and gives birth to a child while on US soil, agrees that her child will not be granted nor will she apply for citizenship for the kid.
Folks have argued with me before about this, saying that they knew this person or that person that had to go back home at the end. Well, if during his 3 year visa, his girlfriend/wife pops out a citizen, the kid and woman stay. Then he says he the dad and under, family reunification, he gets to stay as well.
H1B is a conrporate tax doging schemem. Certain taxes are paid to for US citizenss. The foreign workers are exempt from paying certain taxes, like medicare. Sweet ride for them when 12 of their family members are using benefits they never paid in to.
Check out the IRS code on this and ask yourself why your sons and daughters are being replaced by foreign workers.
It isn’t just tech; Asians are flooding the financial sector as well. Just as in tech, there is no real shortage; just more wage suppression for America’s middle class.
Younger American workers are either slow to realize or refuse to accept that they must be exceptional if they expect to command a decent salary going forward; our businesses are determined to avail themselves of Asian scabs to replace white-collar American workers (with their expectations of weekends, private homes and automobiles, vacations, etc.), and our government is quite content to assist. Middle-aged and older workers know this because they’ve lived through the devastation wrought on our middle class, and now work alongside the imported “replacement Americans”.
Donald Trump has said he won’t let them steal our country; tougher action on this would be more meaningful than hollow words. The immigration issue (not just for illegals) seems to be the primary reason he was elected, and also the reason for his rising support among non-white Americans; we need to see real results. Otherwise, we’ll just continue with the declining standard of living falling to meet the rising standard of living of billions of Asians.
Article says it “allows them to live and work for up to 3 years”, so much BS. Working in IT for years and overrun by H1Bs to the point of the offices feeling like a foreign country I can tell you this, they never go back to their country. They stay employed here, bring their wives who also become employed in IT, have their kids here, eventually get their green cards and never return. An Indian worker I know complained that the Muslim H1Bs were given a faster track to apply for green cards than the non-Muslims and that was about 8 years ago.
One of the problems with the H1B is it is employer-centric.
If the issue is truly that the job market needs more qualified applicants for a special niche of workers, then any solution should not be directed to specific employers at all, but merely making it possible for non-residents to apply to enter the job market.
The H1B should not be assigned to/registered as being part of any specific employer. It should register and individual, who must find employment - within a certain time frame - in a job that meets the requirements of the visa they applied for. It then, once hired, should not tie the individual to its first employer, but only must tie the individual to the work category their visa was approved for. That will end the condition of H1B holders being visa-slaves to a particular employer, which usually gets them lower salaries than permanent residents can get.
The number of H1B visas offered must never exceed some accounting of the open jobs in a job category minus the unemployed workers in that category minus current year college grads in that category.
As it is now the H1B is not administered to merely increase the potential job applicants in a specific category - so that jobs do not go wanting for lack of good candidates - but instead is used by employers to bring in specific people they already know they want and avoid potential candidates that are already available and need no visa to work.
The H1B employer specific link must be severed. It is the root of the H1B corruption.
Corporate interest have no need to reinvest into America and ‘education’ if they can simply import workers to do the jobs required.
Most likely the firm already knows who they want - someone who needs an H1B visa - but they go through the motions of interviewing folks who need no such visa, so they can “document” the pretense that they could not find a legal-resident candidate who was qualified/who they wanted.
What you describe has been happening in information technology jobs for decades.
Let’s hope Pres. Trump puts the full package out there. This should be part of a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1987 ONE TIME amnesty. The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1987 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.
Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.
So let me get this straight.. You think corporations are just looking for the best and brightest? And not the trillions in tax breaks?
I work in a highly technical field, have worked with the h1bs.. their education is crap and they scare me. I don’t know how many close calls due to that gap in American education vs their cheap international degree mill diploma... I have caught them.
American: $69/hr
H1B in US: $59/hr
Indian outsource: $42/hr
I'm sure this excites all the bean counters in the C-Suite. But of course what they don't see is that a day's worth of Indian developer work produces such crappy code that is so brittle and non-extensible that it takes a week or a complete re-write by the American to fix it. This suits the Indians because then the "productivity" of the Americans looks bad and the company pays more hours to the Indians to fix the crap they wrote badly the first time.
There is a real problem with H1B and outsourcing, but an even bigger problem is the vulture capitalism of the C-Suite that simply seeks to plump up next quarter's earnings so they can cash in and leave another failing company and more impoverished American workers when they leave.
I kind of like that idea. Allow no H1B workers except actors and musicians. That's one class, I could get behind putting out of work.
Prosecuted for something any way. He's pushing hard for this bill. He must be raking in big bucks from lobbyists.
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