Comments on: Does the new H-1B hiring rule for TARP Recipients help US workers?

By: gregrenu

gregrenu — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:41:40 +0000

Is US companies enforced the TARP rule? I did not read anything like this in any web sites.

By: American non-H1B

American non-H1B — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:16:20 +0000

H1B program has been and is still being abused. A close inspection of LCAs filed shows over 1,200,000 certified for years 2006 and 2007 and 2008. And don’t tell me that a certified LCA does not mean anything because there’s a yearly quota limit of 75,000 for H1B because this quota is also bull…

Check out the real figures published by the US Immigration itself.

Temporary workers in specialty occupations (H1B) 302,421 (1999) 355,605 (2000) 384,191 (2001) 370,490 (2002) 360,498 (2003) 386,821 (2004) 407,418 (2005) 431,853 (2006) 461,730 (2007) 409,619 (2008)

If you don’t believe it, go to this link : http://www.dhs.gov/files/statistics/publications/YrBk08NI.shtm and download Table 25.

then match it with the number of certified LCAs. Go to this link : http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
and download the tables for 2006, 2007 and 2008

Compare the number of certified LCAs to the number of H1B visas issued. Do you all now see the similarities? OVER 1,200,000 H1B visas issued from 2006 till 2008. NOTE that a H1B visa is good for 3 years !

By: corey K

corey K — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:46:34 +0000

Get rid of all H1B visa holders ship em back to their own country. We don’t need them here. They are stealing jobs from hard working American’s Their talent pool is not stronger than ours. They just have cheaper educational system which allows any one to obtain a degree. I was laid off from T-Mobile while they keep on several H1B visa holders in place!! It’s not far, some one needs to go after these companies. It’s wrong what they are doing!

By: Ro

Ro — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:26:54 +0000

Americans are afraid, they are scared that indians will innovate and become leaders in america in various fields. Therefore they have to invent some scheme to get rid of people born in asia.If the mexians and the aborignies who lived in north america had the power to get rid of Americans who landed her, most Americans won’t be here.Very few people understand and are going to accept reality.

By: BOP_B_3AKOHE

BOP_B_3AKOHE — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:46:22 +0000

All, absolutely all highly quantitative employees in large financial institutions are emigrants (some of them already went thorough F-1, H1-B, GC, Citizenship). Why? Just because American education sucks compared to that in Russia, Europe, China and India. There are many foreign students at the best US graduate schools, and these students are much better than Americans who are having extremely hard time to get their PhDs (if at all) in quantitative fields. Hey, Americans, you have to accept that you do not stand a chance against H1-Bs, simply because they are smarter and period. That is why companies are spending a lot of time and resources to hire foreigners: it costs approximately $5000 to file a single H1B petition and much more to file a green card. Lousy politicians try to make their carriers by writing bills and amendments. H1-B is a hot topic since any H1-B discriminating bill will pass, and the politician will have his name on the bill (like a publication for scientist), because no American citizen would defend H1-Bs. But politicians do not care about average American Joe. You have to admit that the fraction of US population that can compete for skill required H1-B position is very-very if not zero. In any way, best people will always be on top. In fact, I personally do not know any H1-B who had to go back to his country (and I know more than 20 right now), because even in the current “freezing” environment for emigrants they can get another job by being competitive and betting Americans here again.

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By: HameRodrigues

HameRodrigues — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:38:10 +0000

Are you kidding. Do you really think companies adhere to H1B visa hiring policies. Most of the H1′s I worked with are just plain old vanilla programmers. The difficult jobs of defining technical/business strategies and architecting and designing solutions are done by highly skilled American workers. The American public has a misconception that INdian workers are smarter and better. There are many America programmers who are out of work because their jobs are being either outsourced or given to consultants on H1B visas at a lower cost. The Indian consulting firms do not hire Americans programmers. My brother was hired by an Indian consulting firm for a year. He worked 8 days the entire year. His job was to go to meetings in the states to give clients the impression that Americans worked for the firm. He called himself “The AMERICAN Presence”. Both the government and American companies need to stop lieing to the American people. American technology workers just want a level playing field.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:08:36 +0000

Its really absurd that the Obama Government apply curbs on H1B visas, not sure how this is going to help the American Citizens. If the American Citizens were so educated and qualified then probably outsourcing would never have started in the first place. Now with the new rules, any company receiving TARP funds will automatically qualify as a H1B dependent company and they then have to comply with the H1B dependent rules, which are quite rigid. Most of the jobs too these days that are advertised ask for Citizens or Green Card Holders making life really tough for H1B visa holders

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By: jinishans

jinishans — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:54:15 +0000

Guys I dont’ understand. Everyone knew / hear about below statement several times. Still why we’re talking about stopping H1B’s. These are the people who made Sillicon Valley. You guys want US / Obama govt to kill the Goose…?

“Immigrants have founded hundreds of thousands of US companies (including co-founding Google, Intel, Sun, eBay and Yahoo), plus more than 50% of all high-tech companies in Silicon Valley….”