Barack Obama favors H2-B visas and reflects on H1-B gaming by employers
Image by Getty Images via Daylife As elections approach, Illinois Senator Barack Obama who is US, Democratic presidential nominee in a campaign event in Pennsylvania talked about streamlining specialized skills related jobs and their visas -- H2-B.H2-B visas are required for highly specialized skills where local US business is not able to recruit the local talent citing "nuclear physicist" example from India.
Obama was unhappy that (H1-B) visas system is misused by the companies by wrongfully hiring software engineers for low wages and effecting the US labor markets and wages.
With US unemployment rate reaching 6.1% , the jobs have become a talking point in US 2008 elections and naturally the focus is shifted of how the jobs should not be wrongfully moved to overseas. The immigration is deciding factor in elections as how well both McCain Republicans and Obama Democrats talk about their immigration policies in coming weeks.
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Labels: Barack Obama, Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, H1-B, H2-B, Immigration, Pennsylvania, Politics, Presidential nominee, Society and Culture, United States, US
written by Kalyan @ 8:38 PM,
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Four years prison for bribing USCIS officals to Get Green Card
Image via WikipediaWorcester's Snowhill resident Mohammad Ijaz bribed USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service officials) for six green cards besides participating in a sate tax evasion scam. The result he landed in prison with four year term and three years of probation.He gave bribes in amounts $900,000 to get U.S. Green Cards for six people and for taxes to Comptroller to assess the sales in the stores to $18 million.
Ijaz is one of 11 men arrested as part of a September nationwide sweep in Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties.
Labels: Immigration, Society and Culture, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, United States, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, United States nationality law, USCIS
written by Kalyan @ 11:13 AM,
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H1-B visa caps led to High-tech Jobs unfilled
This article in Gazette highlights the problems that Maryland employers facing as a result of 85000 H1-B visa cap. Getting H1-B in US is a lottery system now with so many applicants fiercely competing for meager 65,000 H1-B visas.
Students in US are some what better off in the sense that they can work on F1 visa for 29 months and apply for 20,000 H1-B visas available.
Chamber of commerce's lobbying was not working to increase the cap back to 195,000 quota of 2003.
Is H1-B effecting the salaries and jobs taken away from US workers ?
Globalization and the American IT Worker(pdf).
Students in US are some what better off in the sense that they can work on F1 visa for 29 months and apply for 20,000 H1-B visas available.
Chamber of commerce's lobbying was not working to increase the cap back to 195,000 quota of 2003.
Is H1-B effecting the salaries and jobs taken away from US workers ?
Globalization and the American IT Worker(pdf).
A number of studies have found that the H-1Bs are paid on average 15% to 33% less than comparable U.S. IT workers.Given the similarity in salary savings between offshoring and labor importation, and the fact that having the work done on-site is far more productive, it is much more cost-effective from a CEO’s point of view to hire H-1Bs than to offshore the work
Labels: H-1B visa, Immigration, Recreation, Society and Culture, Travel, United States, US, Visa
written by Kalyan @ 11:29 AM,
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