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Facebook tried to pull a similar gimmick in India called "Free Basics". It was dealt with criticism and the regulatory authority in India was smart enough to reject the proposal. Reliance, one of the sheepskin corporation in India wanted to embrace Free Basics with Facebook but could not. Now Reliance is trying a similar act with "Jio" cellphones.

Its a good thing that many countries are realizing that US based monopolies are not good for their economy. Take China for example, their companies are well off like AliPay, WeChat, Tencent. Its because they are protected from monopolies who have the firepower to kill them. Keeping the monopolies in check will spur the growth & innovation in developing countries.

Agree, when I go for a vacation, its my hard earned vacation. I wont and I dont have time to deal with a myriad of AirBnB problems. Hotels are predictable and guaranteed. Another upcoming is Turo. I used it once and discontinued. The owner cancelled my reservation 4 days before my vacation. So I went back to my old faithful Enterprise. The gist of my experience is, if you value your vacation & time, do yourself a favor and go old school. Let AirBnB and Turo make money for their investors, but they can count me out. The only service that I never had a bad experience is Uber.

I have had bad experience with AirBnB. For me, it was a rental agency posing as a family. The listing had photo of a family which I hoped to meet when I rented. After checking in, I called the phone number and it was picked by a receptionist with the usual courtesy. I asked if I could meet the family, she said "there is no family sir" we are a rental agency. After some days, talking with the next door neighbors, I found that the entire building was AirBnB.

I felt sorry for the real tenants of that locality. They wont have any affordable place to rent anymore. I deleted my AirBnB profile after this incident and another security incident in another rental and will never use this again.

Now I know, there is a reason why hotels charge more, you pay for the safety, the standards and a 24 hours reception desk.

Not everyone in this world is from Anglosphere. So please excuse if the word "menace" is not apt. On another note, Dennis The Menace should be R rated I guess.

Remember eBay's bright yellow to white background transition ?

WhatsApp owned by Facebook which also owns FB Messenger, its only a matter of time for this transition.

They are a menace to the common man who lives at rental apartments. The rental prices of apartments have gone very high due to AirBnB. The entire building is being rented out in AirBnB by the owner making it impossible to rent for the common man.

Someone should keep a check on this service. For ex: Allow only single home owners to rent, else this is going to be a huge problem.

The rental that I took was owned by a real estate agency even though the profile showed the foto of a family. I didn't realize that until I thought I will meet with the sweet family, so I called the phone number and it was picked up by receptionist and said there is no family !

So I asked AirBnB about this rental portrayed as a family owned rental, but was really a real estate agency, their reply was "Its legal" and I should have read the fine print before renting.

I have lived almost all of my childhood in Muscat, Oman. I went to visit Oman some years back which was very nostalgic. I still felt very welcomed there, met shopkeepers & my neighbors who instantly recognized the grow up me.

PS: I am not an American nor European.

If we could put those government folks who signs the contracts to build customer facing government web applications through this exercise.

The Masters in US is gamed too. Many of those students are the ones who could not clear the campus interviews of Infosys, Cognizant or Accenture when they were in the college for Bachelors. So they come to "study" MS in the US so that they can get into the H1B system easily.

As far as I know, the MS hires do not posses any special skills. Most of them fake their experiences to get into the companies. There are specific "one room consultancy" companies setup in the US to hire these MS graduates in OPT, fake their resumes, run their fake payrolls and push them to an employer.

IELTS (Non academic stream)

I have a general understanding of all the nook & corners of the I-140 portability rules. Its very precarious & employees with a family and kids in school will not dare to do this. Its a high risk maneuver.

Suppose an employee did take the risks, think about when he will be getting a greencard for EB2 or EB3 from India/China, 10 years ? If the queue readjusts, 15 years ? What if the portability provisions are taken out by a new government ? Whats the point ? Why should an employee's future be dictated by a broken immigration system ? I believe in fail-fast, so that's why I took the Express Entry path of Canada and I didn't fail.

I really feel welcomed here. I should have done this earlier, but better late than never.

Happy to be at a place where my skills are appreciated. More of my friends will soon be ex H1Bs.

No lawyers needed. Its a simple online system. If you have the skills and you can prove it( IELTS,work experience,your degrees), the system awards you the points. No employers needed, no lawyers needed, you are totally in control of your visa. This is the beauty of this system. There is no place for bad apples like the H1B in this skills based system. You cannot fake it.

"May the skilled ones win"

Points based system is the right way of quantifying skills & it seems to be working well for Canada.

for ex: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp

and you are one of those random H1B employee in the top percentile & we were not.

I am not in the country anymore. Was in US for 4 years. Left it for Canada as a permanent resident.

"lottery based skilled visa" sums it up.

I am not assuming that you are in Detroit. I used to work remotely for an Automotive company in Detroit for their telematics unit. Some colleagues I know commute from Windsor.

If you satisfy the points under this grid -

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp

and your documentations are correct, 6 months is the SLA.

Whoever argues that H1Bs are paid handsomely, have a look at this data disclosure for 2016 H1B wages (137 MB) from DOL. You can find all the details of companies that exploits the workers with some MS Excel wizardry.

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/docs/Performance_Dat...

The companies exploit a loop hole called "Pay Ranges" if you see the excel columns - WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_FROM & WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_TO, rather than a single absolute WAGE, the companies can legally pay any salary in that range.

That's where Mr Trump needs to "patch" the system, raise the minimum WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_FROM.

> H1B is transferable between employers

Its not easy as it sounds. Being a single that time, I have transferred my H1B myself and it was a nightmare. I had sleepless nights and uncertainty. My GreenCard process was reset. Any H1Bs who knows about the system really well will not risk transferring because of the risks to their green card process.

There is no honest company which pays a fair salary for H1Bs. If you see the data from here:

https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm

I have a huge circle of friends in many companies. We discuss our salaries and issues openly. Not one of them says that they are paid equal to their American colleagues. Moroever the promotions and salary raises goes to American colleagues, while the H1Bs bears it all to support the family with the income where his/her spouse is not allowed to work (H4 visa)

ex H1B here. Yes Trump is right.(though I do not like him personally, he is right in this matter) Most of the corporate America is exploiting H1B workers. I have worked in one of those firms and I have friends in many other firms. These are not Indian body shops, these are American companies. Everyone's topic of discussion when we hangout is how our H1B visas were being exploited and there is nothing we could do about it. We were bound to the employer with no hopes of promotion and the long wait for GreenCard (10 years). H1B has become a system to pay lower wages than a skilled visa. How can it be a skilled visa, if the visas are allocated based on lottery ?

So we decided to do something about our situation. We started foraying into the immigration systems of other countries and we decided to use the express entry system of Canada. So we all applied for it ourselves, got evaluated for our skills & degrees and now I am happily typing this as a permanent resident from Canada.

Express Entry System -

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp

I was in the same boat, and I understand the frustrations. But then I used third party plugins which can filter out the fluff from twitter & facebook.