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This pertains to H-1B non-immigrant visas under the cap (limit) of 85,000 every year. Educational institutions and research facilities can request H-1B's all year long, these are uncapped. The problem is caused by US companies requesting foreign workers not for their education/skills/experience, but just because they can make money of them.
If a US company needs a worker for a short-term project - a few weeks or a few months - the H-1B could be a good solution. Currently there exists no visa for this type of situation! Remuneration should at least be twice the prevailing wage.
For other workers who are invited to assume a job in the US, a GREEN CARD should be issued. For the first two years this could be a Conditional Card. If all goes well, it can become a permanent visa. (Attention DOGE: think of all the savings if the unnecessary H-B issuance/re-issuance/extension/additional extension procedures are eliminated !)
The US should stop the non-immigrant alphabet soup that puts people and their families in a stressful situation, making them insecure about their future, for years. Thousands of rats are killed every year in research showing the effects of stress on the body and the mind. Concluding it is really bad. Yet well-meaning, hard-working, tax-paying, newcomers are exposed to a lot of it - unnecessarily.
And stop ruining the lives of about 100,000 well-educated women every year. Yes, hard to understand for mostly male "decision makers" - but we want, need, to work and earn too !
This, bytheway, mainly happens to workers from India. For European workers most companies have already found solution: one-year on a European location, then on to the US on a L-1 visa (not capped). And L-2 spouses are allowed to work.
Too bad we never see any progress here, thanks to a two-party system filled with cowardly people.
This pertains to H-1B non-immigrant visas under the cap (limit) of 85,000 every year. Educational institutions and research facilities can request H-1B's all year long, these are uncapped. The problem is caused by US companies requesting foreign workers not for their education/skills/experience, but just because they can make money of them.
If a US company needs a worker for a short-term project - a few weeks or a few months - the H-1B could be a good solution. Currently there exists no visa for this type of situation! Remuneration should at least be twice the prevailing wage.
For other workers who are invited to assume a job in the US, a GREEN CARD should be issued. For the first two years this could be a Conditional Card. If all goes well, it can become a permanent visa. (Attention DOGE: think of all the savings if the unnecessary H-B issuance/re-issuance/extension/additional extension procedures are eliminated !)
The US should stop the non-immigrant alphabet soup that puts people and their families in a stressful situation, making them insecure about their future, for years. Thousands of rats are killed every year in research showing the effects of stress on the body and the mind. Concluding it is really bad. Yet well-meaning, hard-working, tax-paying, newcomers are exposed to a lot of it - unnecessarily.
And stop ruining the lives of about 100,000 well-educated women every year. Yes, hard to understand for mostly male "decision makers" - but we want, need, to work and earn too !
This, bytheway, mainly happens to workers from India. For European workers most companies have already found solution: one-year on a European location, then on to the US on a L-1 visa (not capped). And L-2 spouses are allowed to work.
Too bad we never see any progress here, thanks to a two-party system filled with cowardly people.