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I may even go so far as to suggest that significantly increasing H1Bs could hurt general immigration policy. Companies would rather have more H1Bs than immigrants with the ability to defend their rights and the general population will see the damage caused by H1Bs (and with some well place propaganda) instead blame immigration. But this is a thought I have just thought and have not yet given full thought to.
All else being equal, sooner or later, that will cause enough problems for companies that they'll start going elsewhere, and then it will be you filling out the immigration paperwork if you would like to move there to work with the best and brightest.
That statement is self contradicting, since H1B is the only way to immigrate to USA.
Edit: Unless you already have family here willing to sponsor your PR.
Care to tell me what are the other practical avenues for people to immigrate to US if they are not a noble laureate or an olympic gold medalist ?
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/family-reunification#...
Not be from a country for which the applicable immigrant visa categories are overloaded (IIRC, China, India are the big overloaded categories for employer-based categories; and Mexico, the Phillipines, and India again for family-based categories) and be qualified for either family-based or employer-based immigration.
Or, qualify for a number of the other dual-intent non-immigrant visas besides the H-1B, such as the H-4, or the L, E non-immigrant visas.
The H-1B is just one dual-intent non-immigrant visa category, its not even the main way for people who aren't noble laureate or Olympic gold medalists (or the broader group who qualify under the O and P non-immigrant visa categories that would seem to apply to those two groups) to immigrate.
(You usage of "disingenuous" is almost as a synonym for "wrong". It doesn't just mean "wrong" or "incorrect", it implies that you believe that the comment is intentionally dishonest. If you aren't absolutely sure someone is trying to mislead others, it's a poor word choice. It gets used on HN a lot, a lot more than it should be.)
edit: I do see from the sibling reply that you were more or less right.
> That statement is self contradicting, since H1B is the only way to immigrate to USA.
No, its not self-contradicting. One, because H-1B isn't the only way to immigrate to the USA (there's a whole bunch of immigrant visa categories [0], H-1B is just one visa category, and technically its a non-immigrant category that allows dual intent -- that is, its a non-immigrant visa holders of which are not prohibited from also seeking permanent residency.)
And, two, because one can support immigration but think all the existing mechanisms are undesirable, and be pro-immigrant but oppose all of the status quo immigration mechanisms, preferring new mechanisms. So even if H-1B was the only existing US immigration avenue, the statement wouldn't be self-contradictory.
[0] A partial list -- Family based: IR1, IR2, IR3, IR4, IR5, CR1, CR2, F1, F2, F3, F4, F2A, F2B, IH3, IH4; Employer based: E1, E2, E3, EW3, C5, T5, R5, I5.
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> Edit: Unless you already have family here willing to sponsor your PR.
And this is still wrong, because while family-based immigration is the main route in the US, there are also employer-based immigrant categories, and even additional dual-intent non-immigrant visas (what the H-1B is that allows it to be used for immigration) besides the H-1B.
Believe it or not, that Indian or Chinese fellow is a reasonably smart and savvy developer just like you. They compared the "legally enforced loyalty test" to their other available options and determined that the HUGE pay hike (think 500-750%) made it worth their while. Further, the transferability of the "legally enforced loyalty test" only means that finding a new job and rage quitting must be done in exactly that order. Many people take a job with the first sponsoring employer with the express intention to shift jobs the minute they hit US soil.
I know you don't want to be competing with the nice Indian fellow, but don't spin your protectionism as somehow being for his benefit. You simply want to confine him to (American style) poverty to protect your paycheck.
As I said, I am pro-immigration. I would have no problem him coming over here with a green card and I am for extending the number of green cards given out.
>You simply want to confine him to (American style) poverty to protect your paycheck.
It seems your assmptions about me are quite mistaken.
Wage-based arguments for H1B are pure protectionism.
There are legitimate problems with H1B, e.g. spouse not being allowed to work and the irrational country quotas for transitioning H1Bs into green cards. 'Wage-depressing' and 'job-stealing' are specious critiques at best. It is debatable whether the government should be in the business of preventing wage depression.
The problem is the government intervention in the H1B. That is why immigration without the specific form of government intervention that is found in H1B is something I can support. The problem is that the government enforces company loyalty on penalty of being thrown out of the country or worse.
Let them be hired and move here, but let them be just as free to seek a new employer if they ever feel they are being taken advantage of.
We make it so hard to recruit great talent in this country and so hard for talented entrepreneurs--who often don't qualify for work or family based visas--to get a visa.
For Americans afraid of immigrants (H1B or other types) stealing your jobs - research shows that you'll likely be better off in the long run.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/debunking-the-myt...
Entrepreneurs don't steal jobs - they create jobs.
Consistent with university policy and applicable law, entrepreneurs in
the program will be free to work on their existing entrepreneurial ventures or
start a new company in one of the best entrepreneurial communities in the world.
"we are particularly focused on international entrepreneurs."
It doesn't matter if you give the money to CU and then the university hires someone "international." It's still discrimination at a public institution. Personally I don't understand why they insist on having someone non-American on H1B or why they absolutely must travel to the US to start a start-up. Give someone money where they already live. Don't exclude Americans. What's so hard about that?
ESPINOZA v. FARAH MFG. CO., 414 U.S. 86 (1973)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vo...
Wow... way to not only completely misinterpret the intent but to completely reverse it. Before this program there were exactly zero legal avenues for a not-already-rich aspiring startup founder from another country to come here with the express purpose of starting a business. Now there is one.
In this day of age you very rarely need to be permanently physically present in the US to own and run a US business, and once your business passes the threshold of actually being viable theres multiple routes to getting a Visa.
There's the whole E2 Visa system specifically designed for this. In addition after a year in business there is a L1a route too, assuming the business goes anywhere.
Admittedly theres very little room for a "starving devpreneur who is making some social app that doesn't make any money", but assuming such an app can take off then the investment they could raise would instantly get them to quality for a visa too.
I think here this person is trying to act in good faith, and unfortunately this is the easiest way to get people into the country. I hope for everyone's sake that this is genuine.
H1B visas are the reason that immigration can cause lower salaries. They're anti-free market in every sense of the word
He's paying a bundle of money out of his own pocket to help people out, I don't see how much more genuine it could be.
Let's see:
* AT&T
* Goldman Sachs
* eBay
* Yahoo
* Nordstrom
* DuPont
* Kraft foods
* Pfizer
For starters. The list goes on. Immigrants are beneficial: http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
> Do you feel the same about US entrepreneurs opportunities in foreign countries?
Certainly! Other countries should also make it easier to attract talented people, or for that matter, anyone who is willing to work, and not a criminal.
Sure thing, http://www.startupchile.org/
As an example of an organized program. But you'd be surprised how many countries are quite friendly to US entrepreneurs at least if your point of comparison is "not significantly disadvantaged compared to local entrepreneurs".
Especially here, foreign fools are going to cheer this type of policy on, because they can then self-extract their talents out of their own society and come to the USA to build up our corporate masters' relative domination while their home countries and societies atrophy.
Brain drain is starting to become an ever greater issue for even advanced societies, especially the ones that pay for their citizens' education. The tax payer is footing the education and then, at the first chance, many of them, under the spell of America's formidable marketing and PR machine, dispatch to the USA with sparkles in their eyes; all along, not realizing they are just a cog in the wealthy's machine.
With every immigrant, whether skilled or unskilled, the inflation eats away at the earnings and progress of the average American like an endless treadmill that the wealthy have dangled an image of the American dream in front of.
Yes, come to America, everyone. Make me more wealthy by increasing the population, make me more wealthy through inflation, make me more wealthy by pushing down labor rates and cheapening salaries, make me ever more powerful by draining your talents and labor from your home societies, culture, and economy.