Do you support to increase US H1 VISA to 60,000+?

Question

or do you want to give US H1 VISA

Just share your thought.............

Lets make this question as big as we can ........by number of answers and everyone should know about our view on H1 visa

Answer 1

No....the H1 visa has been totally abused....in fact, it needs to be overhauled...see link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh6OLUPSHyE&mode=related&search=

http://www.workpermit.com/news/2007-05-16/us/h-1b-visa-outsourcing-abuse-investigation.htm

Answer 2

You can walk into an American university and take a random sample of grad students. I'd say under 50% will be Americans. The rest Chinese, Indian, Eastern Europeans and others. Universities have figured out that they can find better students abroad. If they don't dip into the foreign pool, they perform poorer than their competing universities in metrics such as the median pay after graduation. When these students get jobs, they need H1-Bs and then greencards. Companies that are willing to go through these immigration processes likewise get a better pool of knowledge workers. Sending the students back home after subsidizing their education here is stupid. They will take their skills back to their home country. Shutting off immigration at the university level by canceling the F-1 visa program will have bad consequences too. American universities will slip in rankings to the Europeans, Canadians and Australian universities which still gladly welcome immigrants (the educated kind). American businesses will offshore work to countries with better talent pools. Microsoft has been doing this at Vancouver and Bangalore. The problem is that Americans today want to coast on the achievement of their forefathers. But America does not work this way. The next ship docking at the Ellis Island is what kept this country competitive. But now the 'workforce' is happy to cash unemployment checks and sit on their asses. For e.g., I have two neighbors that are unemployed. One of them part-times at her husband's store to cut his costs. The other one smokes all day and doesn't mow his lawn, let alone try to make some money on the side. Guess which one is the immigrant.

Answer 3

The H1 needs to be fixed, we need exit programs that actually work and proof of need. There is much abuse of this visa and those problems need to be corrected. Employers also need to prove two things 1) need and 2) lack of a qualified individual here in the United States. Congress itself has admitted that this visa is abused to the point that citizens are being pushed out of the running for some jobs (tech and science are but two).....

Companies should also be forced to pay appropriate wages to visa holders to prevent the use of the visa system to obtain cheap labor at the expense of our skilled professionals, several studies have shown that visa holders make much less than the average citizen in that position, which also drives down wages for citizens.

I have no problem with looking to the visa system to fill NEEDED positions but using the visa system to get cheap professionals while we have under employed or unemployed professionals here is crazy.

Answer 4

I think we need to fix the program so the top 5 companies getting them are not outsourcing companies. Those companies and any companies with the same shareholders should be barred from ever getting one again.

I don't know if we need more or not because they have been so abused this far. I DON'T think we should give them across the board to people who get masters or any particular degree here, our universities are already way overcrowded and too expensive without making them the surest entree to the US.

I'm open to a discussion, but not a sneaky one like the unlimited amount for graduates of any back of the matchbook advertised college such as has been in the bills they've been floating.

The fact that they run out the first day is irrelevant to me if they are not checking to make sure US workers don't want the job first. It undermines particularly the older more expensive workers who we absolutely want to be able to support themselves and save for retirement with social security in the mess it's in.

Right now I don't support any increase in anything because there is way too much dishonesty in what is happening, and I see no one reducing the impact and reforming the problem as part of these bills. They just want 'more' and that makes the impact 'more'. And we need less impact not more.

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to the person above me, I THINK you are being sarcastic, but you raise my Grandfather's ghost in your post, so to my Grandfather I would point out that wages are the lowest part of GDP since WWII, per the Fed, and before that was the Great Depression. When labor was 'in it's flower' people assumed basic health care etc were givens and that companies would 'share the wealth' with employees. (My Grandfather ALWAYS gave health care and didn't run a union shop. It was paternalism. He wanted 'his people' treated well, and felt good about providing for them.) Instead the gap between rich and poor has grown larger, in good part (but certainly not entirely) because of over immigration. Trickle down doesn't trickle down very far.

I used to believe what the poster above me says, more or less, which is why I am not dismissing it as sarcasm.
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LOL! by the addition it clearly wasn't sarcasm. Mexicans don't need H1 visas because of the NAFTA professional bit Bush is unilaterally extending. It is a skilled worker program, not McDonalds, unless you are looking at their corporate office, not their restaurants.

Answer 5

The current annual cap on the H-1B category is 65,000. If the quota went to 60,000, that would not be an increase.

6,800 visas are set aside during the fiscal year for the H-1B1 program under the terms of the legislation implementing the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements.

Unused numbers in this pool can be made available for H-1B use with start dates beginning on October 1, 2007, the start of FY 2008.

USCIS has added 5,800, the projected number of unused H-1B1 Chile/Singapore visas to the FY 2008 H-1B cap.

The H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 also makes available 20,000 new H-1B visas for foreign workers with a Master’s or higher level degree from a U.S. academic institution.

So, you have 65,000 plus the 20,000 from the Reform Act of 2004, and that makes 85,000 H-1Bs a year.

Answer 6

I cannot support the H1 visa program. From what I've seen, those visas are issued to foreigners who are willing to work for less money and no benefits. The visa is intended to fill positions that cannot be found in the US and I believe its being abused.

Answer 7

I have been retired for a good while now, and have no need, or interest in going back into Science again. While there, we ran into many, many people from overseas applying for jobs and when they were investigated,they did not meet the qualification we demanded from hires.

The United States has more and better technical schools than anyone in the world. Most of the people who graduate from those schools do not become employed in their chosen fields while being fully qualified. If there is an expertise that is not ... not taught in our schools, we need to discover that field and immediately move to provide course work in the area.

H1B VISA's are yet another example of Congress actively attempting to thug the Citizens of this country while they are attempting to give away jobs that should go to the people of this country.

I believe it has become a fact now. The people of this country ... the people need to vote on immigration limits in all fields, and that vote made law!

Answer 8

No! I support the H1 program going to zero until every American that needs a job has one.

Answer 9

Sure, as a true republican, I support all techniques of making labor cheap for our business to boost our economy. I support not only H1 visa increase, but also guest worker passes that would allow several million mexicans a year to come and go between mexico and the USA to work, and I support laws that make it easier for our companies to close union controlled factories here and send those jobs overseas to China, India and other destinations. Nothing is of greater importance than slashing taxes to bare minimum and low wages to boost profits. If the economy does well, not only will business do well, and the people with money, but the middle and lower classes will get a trickling down benefit of that success, and all will be good.

If you oppose illegal immigration, its either cause you are a racist and hate mexicans or are too lazy and feel they threaten your cushy job at Mcdonalds. Competition is good, if they come here to threaten your jobs at Mcdonalds, its a blessing in disguise that will force you to go and get a better job, or start a business, or go to school to learn something.
God Bless President Bush and our Troops, Global warming is a myth, and we must stay the course and win in Iraq

Answer 10

america should start enforcing the immigration laws and border laws, that are on the books. when the borders and ports are secure and then IF there a no americans to fill these jobs we should then think about bringing in more non citizens to fill jobs our workers need