She majored in marketing or something fairly commonplace at one of the many colleges here in the Pittsburgh area. He had a scholarship which paid for a large part of his tuition at Carnegie-Mellon, one of the best IT schools in the country.
They got married shortly before their senior year. She got a job in the Pittsburgh area. The best he could do was a so-so job on the opposite side of the state. All of his classmates from India and a scattering of other foreign countries were getting multiple job offers, including our area.
The young man commuted for two years being home mostly only on weekends for his young bride before finally landing a decent job in the Pittsburgh area.
It seems some of the local IT companies were shamed when someone posted a You-Tube video of a seminar being held downtown at a posh hotel on how not to hire Americans. I kid you not. I hope it is still there because it ought to go viral again.
Is this it? "Fake Job Ads" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
The Cohen & Grigsby PERM video? It’s still up on YouTube.
As for IT, having a security clearance is rapidly becoming the path to bypass the immigration law nonsense. It’s not the most optimal path, but it offers something that is (mostly) closed to internationals.
It’s one thing to say someone’s not qualified, it’s another to design qualifications to exclude citizens entirely.