President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administration says is overuse of the program.
Not everyone who wants to work in the US has any interest in becoming a US citizen.
But if you want the industry H1-B program to operate as anything but a wage-suppression scheme, break the tie between the visa and the sponsoring company. If someone is granted an H1-B, make it for a defined period, and within that pariod, allow them to work for any US company.
“cannot find that talent in the United States”.
I was a hiring manager in the software industry. That claim is indeed bullshit in all but vanishingly rare cases. Employers like the H1-B holders because they are disempowered, underpaid and have no job security. There’s a whole cottage industry of middlemen who will give fake substantiation to the “no American can do the job” claim: for example, by requiring some vendor-specific skill set that happens to be taught at an Indian university, but not in the US, because US universities mostly avoid being trade schools. And because anyone with a strong CS background could pick it up in a week.
Not everyone who wants to work in the US has any interest in becoming a US citizen.
But if you want the industry H1-B program to operate as anything but a wage-suppression scheme, break the tie between the visa and the sponsoring company. If someone is granted an H1-B, make it for a defined period, and within that pariod, allow them to work for any US company.
I was a hiring manager in the software industry. That claim is indeed bullshit in all but vanishingly rare cases. Employers like the H1-B holders because they are disempowered, underpaid and have no job security. There’s a whole cottage industry of middlemen who will give fake substantiation to the “no American can do the job” claim: for example, by requiring some vendor-specific skill set that happens to be taught at an Indian university, but not in the US, because US universities mostly avoid being trade schools. And because anyone with a strong CS background could pick it up in a week.