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1) Raise the minimum salary to 200k+. Anything else is indentured servitude/downwards wage pressure.

2) Remove the family extension. 80k/year shouldn't end up being 500k/year.

You'd have a hell of a time convincing anyone to take a US job if you had to leave your spouse and five-year-old behind. (Parents, siblings, and adult children aren't eligible for H-4 status.)

Spouses and children are covered by H4.

Yes, I mean if you got rid of H-4

> You'd have a hell of a time convincing anyone to take a US job if you had to leave your spouse and five-year-old behind.

Companies would have to [gasp] offer substantially more pay. Which would of course defeat the point ad far as corporations are concerned.

> 1) Raise the minimum salary to 200k+. Anything else is indentured servitude/downwards wage pressure.

The average American salary is less than 70k per year. Don’t you think 200k is a bit high?

We were sold on H1-B's being extraordinary people working extraordinary jobs that Americans cannot fulfill, not a wage suppression indentured servitude program.

That's O-1, not H1B

H1B is for skilled labor where no local worker is available. Why shouldn't that be extremely expensive for employers?

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