Hard Times If You are on H1B Visa??
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If you are on H1B visa and was laid off recently, you are up against a very hard time!! Firstly, due to the market downturn there are hardly any hiring going on. Secondly, even if somebody is hiring, they don;t want H1B's since they have plenty of residents/citizens avaialble. Thirdly, Your legal status. Finally, one has to worry about unsettling environement, family, financial issues etc etc. These are hard times indeed.
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If you are on H1B visa and was laid off recently, you are up against a very hard time!! Firstly, due to the market downturn there are hardly any hiring going on. Secondly, even if somebody is hiring, they don;t want H1B's since they have plenty of residents/citizens avaialble. Thirdly, Your legal status. Finally, one has to worry about unsettling environement, family, financial issues etc etc. These are hard times indeed.
As a total outsider, can I ask why a company would care ? Is H1B a time based thing, so you know you're going to lose your investment, or what ? Christian #include "std_disclaimer.h" People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made. The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first.
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As a total outsider, can I ask why a company would care ? Is H1B a time based thing, so you know you're going to lose your investment, or what ? Christian #include "std_disclaimer.h" People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either one being made. The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first.
People are smarter in general when they're not from the USA (hmmm I wonder why...) or so the thinking at these companies went is my opinion. Anyway, H1B Visas appeared at the outset for the US to get highly-competent, skilled technology workers because there aren't enough Americans who have the skills dotcoms need... It really is too bad about this market downturn -- especially for H-1B visas. Good luck to you! :) Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
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If you are on H1B visa and was laid off recently, you are up against a very hard time!! Firstly, due to the market downturn there are hardly any hiring going on. Secondly, even if somebody is hiring, they don;t want H1B's since they have plenty of residents/citizens avaialble. Thirdly, Your legal status. Finally, one has to worry about unsettling environement, family, financial issues etc etc. These are hard times indeed.
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People are smarter in general when they're not from the USA (hmmm I wonder why...) or so the thinking at these companies went is my opinion. Anyway, H1B Visas appeared at the outset for the US to get highly-competent, skilled technology workers because there aren't enough Americans who have the skills dotcoms need... It really is too bad about this market downturn -- especially for H-1B visas. Good luck to you! :) Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
I wish to recall the bugs not left in the code during Y2K switchover. Bank balances remained mostly intact, and milk arrived OK on Jan 1. Most of the ground-work in that mammoth project, the biggest in terms of $ that US industry has ever managed, was done by H1B visa holders. Now, consider the fact that there is the obvious disparity of - (salary + stocks + bonuses) - low horizontal mobility if you hold an H1B visa. The only way available to an H1B visa guy to remove such disparities, at equal skill levels is for an H1B to get the green card first. (Remember, any possible issues due to differences in background, culture, national origin, etc. are further down the road, after you get the green card.) To the end of removing the above mentioned disparities, H1B visa holders not only take up the even most insignificant but also most involved jobs (e.g. bug fixing in a codebase of 500+K LOC--a job no one else wants but still needs to be done) happily--just to buy the time to go through the Open American Immigration Process. (Sarcasm well deserved by the industry and lawmakers here.) When given truly challenging or significant or enjoyable tasks, as a pleasant surprise, H1B visa holders naturally put in even more effort. Further, realize that most H1B sponsoring companies have already weeded out incompetent people, as far as this can at all be determined by them. Typically, H1B candidates have had 2-3 years' solid experience in their native countries in an already fiercely competitive native job-market and proven their worth there, before a sponsoring company would consider risking their reputation and a legal paperwork for upto six years. Nobody wants to pick up additional tabs of legal responsibilities just like that. H1B visa phenomenon is nothing new. It certainly preceded the dot-com boom and bust. Most of the stable software you can vouch for, and see around today, has had major contributions coming in by the H1B visa holders. One would not expect to see specific credits given to them, once understands how the system works. Taken as a whole, therefore, there is a general impression in the companies that H1B visa people are "smarter." By IQ tests they may not necessarily be so. But by way of their sheer hard work, displayed ability, and the selectivity of the process that gets them here, one would expect them to be so, anyways. No surprise, is there any? As a final remark, should people from USA be forced to go through similar process, it's a matter beyond betting
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I wish to recall the bugs not left in the code during Y2K switchover. Bank balances remained mostly intact, and milk arrived OK on Jan 1. Most of the ground-work in that mammoth project, the biggest in terms of $ that US industry has ever managed, was done by H1B visa holders. Now, consider the fact that there is the obvious disparity of - (salary + stocks + bonuses) - low horizontal mobility if you hold an H1B visa. The only way available to an H1B visa guy to remove such disparities, at equal skill levels is for an H1B to get the green card first. (Remember, any possible issues due to differences in background, culture, national origin, etc. are further down the road, after you get the green card.) To the end of removing the above mentioned disparities, H1B visa holders not only take up the even most insignificant but also most involved jobs (e.g. bug fixing in a codebase of 500+K LOC--a job no one else wants but still needs to be done) happily--just to buy the time to go through the Open American Immigration Process. (Sarcasm well deserved by the industry and lawmakers here.) When given truly challenging or significant or enjoyable tasks, as a pleasant surprise, H1B visa holders naturally put in even more effort. Further, realize that most H1B sponsoring companies have already weeded out incompetent people, as far as this can at all be determined by them. Typically, H1B candidates have had 2-3 years' solid experience in their native countries in an already fiercely competitive native job-market and proven their worth there, before a sponsoring company would consider risking their reputation and a legal paperwork for upto six years. Nobody wants to pick up additional tabs of legal responsibilities just like that. H1B visa phenomenon is nothing new. It certainly preceded the dot-com boom and bust. Most of the stable software you can vouch for, and see around today, has had major contributions coming in by the H1B visa holders. One would not expect to see specific credits given to them, once understands how the system works. Taken as a whole, therefore, there is a general impression in the companies that H1B visa people are "smarter." By IQ tests they may not necessarily be so. But by way of their sheer hard work, displayed ability, and the selectivity of the process that gets them here, one would expect them to be so, anyways. No surprise, is there any? As a final remark, should people from USA be forced to go through similar process, it's a matter beyond betting
You are most correct in your statements :) I wish to express my sympathies :(( Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor
