[sarcasm]

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[angkor]

"Pinky is a Green Card holder and she just helped Ramesh realise a dream after he was denied visa twice. They later filed for a divorce,"

Even though the INS is a broken and dysfunctional institution, this is one sure way to draw its loving and concerned attention.

"What did you last have for dinner?"
"Where did you last go to a restaurant?"
"What color is your bedspread?"
"Please present your three sworn affidavits as to marital status."
"Please show us your joint bank/mortgage/utility statements."

[waterstraat]

he has worked out his plan well. "We have tie-ups with some companies in California and New York who would issue an offer letter at a commission. Once the client reaches the US, he is on his own. While the company will put him on stand-by to fox authorities, he will be free to search for a job. Once he finds one, the company will give him a no objection certificate," he explains. The "operation" would cost Rs 4.5 lakh, this correspondent is told.

We should make this practice illegal.

[A. Pole]

An H1B visa without a job in the US! Sounds incredible? Not if you are in Gujarat, ready to take the risk and pay an astronomical sum to be on a foreign shore.

Jobless H1B?

[dennisw]

Obviously this a way for an umprofitable hi tech company to make some money in this lousy economy. Some Indians could start a hi tech company that does not much more than this.

[harpseal]

An H1B visa without a job in the US! Sounds incredible? Not if you are in Gujarat, ready to take the risk and pay an astronomical sum to be on a foreign shore.

At this time I shall save my sypathy for teh Americans who are without jobs because of all the H1B visa people currently in the USA. This man is not seeking to immigrate to theuSA or he would have gotten on the immigration waiting list to come here as a landed immigrant. He is seeking to be a guest worker here in the USA without immigrant status.

In crude language, f**k him.