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The Department of Homeland Security announced a rule change Wednesday that will transform the lottery that decides who gets the 85,000 H-1B visas granted to for-profit companies every year.
Previously, an initial lottery granted 20,000 visas only to those holding advanced degrees granted by U.S. institutions — master’s degrees or doctorates — and then a general lottery granted 65,000 visas to all qualified applicants.
The Department of Homeland Security switched the order of these lotteries, it said in a notice of the final rule change, which will bolster the odds for highly educated foreign nationals. The change reduces the likelihood that people with just a bachelor’s degree will win in the general lottery, said Lisa Spiegel, an attorney at Duane Morris in San Francisco and head of the firm’s immigration group.
The program shift could hurt technology staffing companies, also known as outsourcers, who have a reputation for flooding the lottery with applications. Three Indian firms — Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro — often account for a majority of the H-1B applications, an analysis of government data shows.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @03:33AM (2 children)
Immigrants are willing to come into America because they will make more money here than they will in most of their home countries. There is also the huge potential of eventually gaining American citizenship. Americans going elsewhere will not commonly make more money elsewhere, nor is citizenship in another country as big a gain.
Also, not many other countries are stupid enough to let in mass waves of Americans. They like their countries to be for them and their kin, not a rootless cosmopolitan way-station.
You are correct that many Americans are lazy. This is because they've learned that their hard work will not be rewarded, the jobs will go to immigrants, the promotions will go to those immigrants who accept less pay (because that sweet US residence and/or citizenship is worth so much to them), and those immigrants will in turn heavily hire and promote other immigrants. Reading report after report of American IT workers, for example, being fired and told to train their immigrant/H1B replacements or they won't get any severance... why would any hard working or smart American go into the IT field? When hard work is punished, you get less of it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @04:59AM
That looks more like a bug than a feature.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 01 2019, @07:56PM
You sound like a Trump supporter.
How do you feel about the fact that this change is INCREASING the amount of H1-B visa holders by 16 percent?