If the supposed benefit of H-1B is getting top researchers from other fields, why do we allow body shops to fill the annual quota with low skill workers?
Like, shouldn't we be in favor of rules will which will shift the balance of H-1B recipients towards the highest skilled (and probably highest paid) workers, instead of a lottery that rewards spamming the system with the greatest number of people who technically have a bachelor's degree?
It seems like a rules change could actually increase the number of very highly qualified people coming to America.
The program is also used to employ people that won’t quit when they are mistreated because their family’s existence in the country depends on continued employment.
Student -> regular dev/engineer -> promoted to lead/researcher/manager (or jump to another company for those positions).
If they didn't come to the US on a student VISA, or H1-B to begin with, they wouldn't have been able to follow the path they did.
What’s your source?
Indians are already very integrated in tech, so networking benefits. If Indians prefer to hire Indians, makes sense that more Indians want to give it a shot.
If these were high value workers neither of these things would be true.
It's funny how easily the argument flips between that and "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.", so long as it leads to the desired conclusion.
Should India be able to send more soccer teams to the World Cup also?
Let’s say hypothetically India has 10,000 A+ candidates, and Thailand has 1,000 A+ candidates. India’s limit is 5,000 candidates and Thailand’s limit is 500 candidates based on population difference or other factors like diplomatic relations.
Half of India’s most qualified aren’t getting in while all of Thailand’s most qualified candidates are getting in plus 500 less qualified candidates.
So all else being equal if you’re very qualified you’ll have a better chance to win the lottery just by being born in a different country.
The limit should be there to prevent the industry from further concentration and becoming a subsidiary of a foreign government like India. There is a national security element to this also.
Nothing against "homegrown" talent, but let's be real - US is getting cream of the crop talent from other countries.
(And that's just AI, not do the same for other fields. Many of these people started as regular engineers and devs., and didn't come to the through the EB-1B/Einstein visa. Just a regular H-1B. And many on student visas.)