What's your opinion about H-1B visa in the current economy?
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Why would anyone want to come and work in US for 30k a year? :confused: especially, if there is a family to support. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
Thomas George wrote: Why would anyone want to come and work in US for 30k a year? especially, if there is a family to support. Thomas, I really do not know the reasons why anyone would do such a thing... but... it would seem that you have answered your own question Thomas George wrote: but, fair price is what the market offers. The third world offers people at much lower costs, and essentially becomes the fair price. If there is any mechanism to artifically decide this fair price, it is socialism, not capitalism Dave "Dak Lozar" Loeser When access is allowed to a member, it said to be accessible. Otherwise, it is inaccessible. - MSDN:C# Programmer's Reference
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In the context of a global market you are right. In the context of a local market with restricted access (normal green card holders, non- H1B) allowing a 5% discount for H1B (which is what the H1B allows) is NOT fair market but an artificial mechanism. In addition the H1B laws place some sevcere restrictions on the ability of the holder to change jobs while here, in effect condeming them to "shut up and do the job or go home" Another objection is that this is also unfairnto immigrants who went through the "normal" process (who have the same 5% discount to compete with), as well as to the H1B recipient, who is likely to be unaware of the costs of living in the environment where the job is offered (ask Nish if they warned him about the cost of "studio" apartments in the Mountain View area...). I'm all for competition, but not for allowing firms to take advantage of the unwary. At the same time, I have some difficulty in sympathizing with someone owning a $500,000 house in Silicon Valley who is unwilling to move to the central or Eastern US to take a job at 60% of the pay he used to make in a place where the same house costs less than $160,000... Over time, in a global economy, these things will even out, provided there are not artificial barriers. I see the H1B as an artificial mechanism that is not a fair substitute for more liberal immigration quotas. Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could have thought of them - George Orwell
If you can find another employer to sponsor you, there is no problem in switching jobs on an H1B visa. Anyway, the idea is that US is not treating H1B as immigration - rather as a temporary worker. They obviously do not want people from other countries coming to US and becoming a liability on the social security, when they lose their job. Hence the requirement that someone should sponsor them (in effect take responsibility for paying them some amount that will enable them to live in the US without becoming a liability). If you ask me, it is more to help big businesses find lower cost employees. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers