H-1B in 2020: Immigration Visa Faces Further Restrictions
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Unfortunately, legitimate employers also have to use the same H1B visa due to the lack of a points based immigration system.
This has led to quite a bit of collateral damage and has turned many legitimately high skilled professionals and grad students away from the US towards EU and Canada.
At the end of the day, these steps still don't address the root cause of work visa abuse - your legal presence in the US on H1B tied to the employer. You probably need legislation to address this and it's nowhere in sight.
Also, there isn't really something called an H1B transfer. its a new H1B application every time you change your job, just that you dont go through the annual lottery if you already went through it once or have an I-140 approved.
Invariably someone will offer the opinion that they should auction the visas so the highest paid get it.
Someone else will respond what about junior people joining it and salaries in Michigan vs San Francisco and so on.
I'll tell you what struck me about this article: the data is staggering. The drop in acceptances is much greater than what I would have guessed. The distribution among the firms is about what I might have guessed. But 30-60% rejections is definitely news.
Because it's an important issue.
> Invariably someone will offer the opinion that they should auction the visas so the highest paid get it
Haven't seen it yet.
Heisenberg!!!
They have hit rock bottom here in DFW area. If you are generic 'java/.net programmer' or a `QA tester`, I've seen rates as low as 25$/hr.
found this on page one of indeed search. enjoy.
If you've got an active security clearance you should definitely run far, far away from this sort of job.
>Flexibility for those needing time off for jury duty, voting, military leave, etc
Two out of three of those aren't even a "perk". That's a legal requirement.
Actually US education system can produce amazing talent. If College/University would be nearly for free like in EU this problem would not exist.
There has been an huge influx of Indians from US coming to Canada. I've seen it first hand in the Toronto market.
We had shit salaries to begin with, and this isn't helping.
They are being paid far above market value because they wouldn't agree to drop down to Canadian salaries.
Further, new hiring has shifted to Canada (we didn't hire devs in Canada at all) and there is a new office now because 5 devs is quite a few, as opposed to the single remote Canadian we used to have.
I suspect salaries are only gonna rise. At least the devs who moved from within our company are being paid well above local market value.
Even a Silicon Valley company with good funding recently that I applied to, with a job posting in San Francisco, eventually hired in Canada.
I seen tons of these questions on quora and other sites too
https://www.quora.com/As-a-Canadian-employer-why-do-you-thin...
so there is def something going on.
In practice, it's mostly a resume-filter thing -- working for a year in a cafe part-time was enough to get me to an interview for a software Pro Services gig
(I had the degree and experience for it, too, but that cleared the "work in Canada" hurdle)
The USA has an enormous amount of capital to invest and those companies want developers and will compete to get them, Europe, Canada etc. not so much.
I mean London has a cost of living comparable to many US Cities yet the wages are far lower.
1- Companies will start hiring citizens and pay them higher salaries leading to shortage of skills and re-skilling of people with other skills into IT.
2- Companies decide to forgo lower NPV IT projects and invest money elsewhere. Accept products without customization. Demand for labour and wages remain close to where they are.
3- Remote work for even project management takes off. It is successful enough that wages actually fall further.
Which one is most likely or will it be a combination of three?
1 - Bootcamps and coding schools are a thing now.
2 - companies moving from on-prem to SaaS reduces the level of customization and the need to hire talent in-house.
3 - Many companies are setting up massive offshore offices (Canada,EU, India, even Brazil). With cloud services this is even more easier.
I'm not so sure a masters is a good indicator of much these days.
In engineering maths, people lean on Wolfram Alpha to solve and break down equations then pretend like they understand because they know the steps. You can look up endless discussion and breakdown of rhetoric and take a position as your own without applying much critical thought beforehand. Cliffnotes. People these days seems to think that because they can look up information it's the same as knowing it.
That's before we get into issues such as institutional cheating. I know a person who makes most of his daily cash shadow writing essays for college and high school students. It's done through an anonymizing method on the web. No idea how many he actually writes, but he seems to write a lot of them especially late spring/fall.
I've taken courses in grad school where the professor lets you bring a laptop to the exams to lookup whatever you want. You still can't solve his problems if you don't understand the basics.
She didn’t know what null was. Nor did she know how to write a single line of code.
Which leads me to believe that Either she lied about that degree (unlikely because her visa was tied to it), or that a masters isn’t a sign of anything.
This is true, however people making decisions do not hold this opinion.
I have an MS but my undergrad degree was liberal arts, I’m sure there are plenty of BS comp sci degree holders who know as much or more than me about topics.
Requiring an MS for immigration is questionable to me.
But strict enforcement is needed to prevent H1b fraud by body-shoppers. I do believe there is a significant need for H1b developers, just a higher quality filter.
If you see this happening, then you can actually report it to DoL (I have had a call from a DoL investigator about H1B abuse at a past employer based on a complaint filed by an employee).
I've worked at several big tech companies and they all abused H1B's. The immigrant workers were paid a lot less than citizens. It pissed me off because the immigrant workers were treated like crap and also I would imagine it puts downward pressure on my own salary.
I worked at a company that gave referral bonuses to employees for new hires. It went like this: $2,000 for a white. $3,000 for a black or Asian. $5,000 for an Indian. HMMM.
There's little incentive for an individual to report anything. You've seen how "whistleblowers" get treated. Up against a big company with a legal department, chances are good that they know how to put up chaff, redirect, deny and obfuscate their abusive practices. Why stick your neck out when it's a systemic problem?
So you are correct that they have to be paid market wage. But the details matter here. For the DOL, the "market wage" is the "prevailing wage". This is a function of the job classification (title), wage level, location and (most important) which wage survey they choose to use.
By now you can probably guess how a company that wants to underpay can use these levers - under classifying, moving them to a suburb with less employers for that job, using a different wage survey etc.
H1Bs allow larger companies to out compete smaller companies with access to cheaper labor, simple as that.
Also H1-Bs are specific to The US so does not negate my comment about most countries and their attitudes to remote workers. Even if technically not allowed somewhere, no one’s going to start a campaign trying to deport remote tourist workers.
Remote workers pay local consumption tax while not draining value from the local economy.
The big companies that dominate the H1-B applications already have offices all over the world and thousands of "remote" employees. They still have offices in the US where they need people locally.
That way, companies can get all of the workers that they are in dire need of, but demonstrably without the possibility of undercutting local labor.
FWIW, the H-1Bs I've worked with have been good people and as competent as locals. I worry some about them being abused by their employers, but that's their trade-off to manage. I have noticed, though, over the years that demand for my skills has lessened noticeably.
Thanks for your answer.
It was huge in the late 90s-early 2000s and partly explains the current situation with the lack of programmers since everybody told their kids that software engineering jobs will all be gone by the time the graduate with their, then useless, CS degree.
It appears the efficacy of outsourcing had been overestimated a bit and many jobs had been "re-shored" since then. And yes, there is still substantial outsourcing business I just don't see how it can expand any more.
If you want to emphasize the disapproval rate, just make a disapproval rate chart, which can have the y-axis range at 0 to 25.