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"The H-1B visa program allows skilled foreign workers, such as programmers, into the United States for up to six years. U.S. employers do not have to attest that they sought U.S. workers to fill the job before applying for a visa, but they are supposed to pay the prevailing wage to the guest worker. The cap does not apply to institutions of higher education or related nonprofit groups, or to nonprofit research groups or governmental research organizations. "

It looks like the universities can get H-1B professionals at will, as well as any company that can offshoot a non-profit branch. The part that gets me is that these institutions (and businesses) do NOT have to show that they tried to hire local first.

As for "prevailing wage," there's the joke. Who's prevailing wage are they referring to? Usually the companies pay what would be considered an obscene amount of money for the home country, but barely living wage in the US. Of course those companies are demanding a fix to bring in more!

Here's an idea: Most of the entities requesting workers under the program provide room and board along with the wages. So, instead of allowing H-1B visas for foreigners, why not have a program under the same conditions and our own people for the work? You have a lot of recent graduates or laid-off tech people that would probably jump at the chance for more experience.

Who knows? The companies involved just might get some decent workers that wouldn't go back home and use what they learned against us.
Posted by: AbsolutelyNot   Posted on: 02/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If a company needs a H1B  Nigel Johnstone | 02/18/04
Huh?  CobraA1 | 02/18/04
If your major is Comp. Sci...  emartin_z | 02/18/04
Not even Civil Service  AbsolutelyNot | 02/18/04
If your major is Comp. Sci...  SC-man | 02/19/04
Not True  voska | 02/19/04
Think NAFTA....  Art Royce | 02/19/04
"American association of ....."  Nigel Johnstone | 02/18/04
Finally FSF and Microsoft agree on something  bjornafreeman@... | 02/19/04
Um...  AbsolutelyNot | 02/19/04
Nice...  AbsolutelyNot | 02/18/04
re; nice virus?  mjimih | 02/18/04
Re: Nice and not in a good way  DonB_z | 02/18/04
I do NOT see the politicians or CEO's living in mud-huts......  SC-man | 02/19/04
Loosers  ats_z | 02/18/04
No quite true  Nigel Johnstone | 02/19/04
Sorry, but you are wrong  Art Royce | 02/19/04
Business Elites  jfredpete | 02/18/04
Laid off due to H1B  four12@... | 02/18/04
Get use to it... It will become the norm for most skilled jobs  DonB_z | 02/18/04
I feel sorry for our kids  JWatson77 | 02/19/04
Wow  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/19/04
Wow  SC-man | 02/19/04
what john  JWatson77 | 02/19/04
No, I don't  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 02/19/04
That's actually not true  voska | 02/19/04
That's actually not true  SC-man | 02/20/04
Not paranoia anymore  AbsolutelyNot | 02/19/04
I've seen a lot of that  voska | 02/19/04
Get rid of H-1B visa's, there are many skilled professional out of work!  DonB_z | 02/18/04
no sit  JWatson77 | 02/19/04
proves h1-b used for cheap not skilled labor  JWatson77 | 02/19/04
Exactly  jfrankcarr | 02/19/04
Reading the responses from...  BitTwiddler | 02/19/04
sounds like a good deal  ttsay | 02/19/04
re: sounds like a good deal  Pebkac Charlie | 02/19/04
re: sounds like a good deal  SC-man | 02/19/04
re: sounds like a good deal  hlampert | 02/19/04
re: sounds like a good deal  SC-man | 02/20/04
your right  JWatson77 | 02/19/04
Gee I wish I knew those people  Hanover Phist | 02/19/04
Gee I wish I knew those people  SC-man | 02/20/04
Where's mine?  AbsolutelyNot | 02/19/04
Where's mine? (Go Get It)  SC-man | 02/20/04
Good idea, Jim.  gordon@... | 02/19/04
How old are you?  Art Royce | 02/19/04
Go for it!  voska | 02/19/04
Not!  AbsolutelyNot | 02/19/04
If there is actually a need for H1B's, then require...  Anton Philidor | 02/19/04
H-1B = SCAB  Telexer | 02/19/04
Oh no! They might have to hire Americans!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/19/04
H1 visa, L1 visa and Outsourcing --  null | 02/19/04
Two points.... L1 .. and one most didn?t consider  Uralbas | 02/19/04
Using an old H1B  jmbhagat | 05/02/04

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