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The UK did this really well with the erstwhile Tier1 visa program: no work restrictions (including starting your own company), but show us annual earnings of more than, for example 2x of the general populations average salary when you apply to renew every 2 years.

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Doesn't that guarantee that foreigners will continue to be paid more than locals?

Is that a problem? Isn’t the usual complaint that foreigners are happy to accept less pay, and h1bs are used to fuel that?

You want foreigners to cost more, to incentivize usage of the local population first — and the whole point of the h1b was supposed to be to “improve the average”, by only hiring for those skills/expertise that can be met by local population.

It could cause other problems for other people, like gentrification of entire cities.

This is literally an episode of south park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Neighborhood

Why would a business pay 2x to someone when they can get the same output from a local at 1x pay? Unless they(business) are doing some financial trickery

>Why would a business pay 2x to someone when they can get the same output from a local at 1x pay?

In the Netherlands it's 2x of median salary across all job market, not 2x of the same position that could be filled by local. The idea of this policy is to prevent foreigners (which EU citizens are not) from outbidding locals and lowering the living standard in the country.

So if knowledge workers are a scarce resource which you can't find at home, you are naturally paying more.

Exploitation, easier disposal, less accountability, more access to higher qualifications, etc.

Because they can't get the work done by locals? Isn't that half if not the entire point of bringing people in through H1-B visas?

The ones that don't make the bar at the renewal time go home, and many did.

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