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'Entering H1-B lottery at very high rate': Indian students may face tougher path to US jobs under new visa rule, says CEO (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The H1-B visa exploitation hole needs to be patched, plain and simple. Sucks to have that precedent set and then taken away, but America needs to be hiring skilled Americans and not pretending they don't exist, to instead hire disadvantaged visa holders, often through shady ghost staffing agencies that skim their paychecks.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

One really goofy part is you don't have to prove as an employer that you can't find a domestic worker to apply for an H1-B. You do have to "prove" you can't find a domestic worker to convert an H1-B to a green card.

Like, under the law technically you have to fire your H1-B worker and replace him with a citizen, and only if you can't find a citizen can you convert him to green card.

This is kinda bonkers and leads to all the fake job postings with weirdly specific requirements. They basically take their worker who has already probably been working at the company for 6 years and copy-and-paste his resume in the job description, then fake advertise the role, to "prove" they can't find anyone, because if they do find someone that means they have to fire the person instead of getting him a green card.

It makes far more sense to make a company prove they can't hire a citizen before allowing them to hire a foreign worker, rather than allowing them to hire but then making them go through a kabuki theater fake recruiting process to convert the person's status.