Also, compare the population my friend..
with hardly 500 million people with land 3 times the size compare that to India with a billion people and 1/3rd the size in land..
Please absorb some of our educated youth and let them give their talents and boost your economy..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/opinion/11friedman.html

Thanks for your time, your patience and above all, your understanding!

There are a lot of misconceptions about H1B in this country. And for people in general, the awareness is on a very low scale as to the legalities and the complexities.

Let me first start off by addressing that the H1B workers dont just qualify as workers but are educated and performing individuals. Yes, they are humans too, like you, me, or anyone else.

They left a way of life, to come to a foreign land, in hopes of bettering their future and their generations to come. There is no law of humanity that can deny that to someone who abides by laws and works hard to achieve it. Even the forefathers of current US citizens came the same way. So dont complain of foreign individuals but learn to live in a truly global non polarized world.

secondly, its not easy to pivot yourself on the forefront of condemnation. Believe me, getting an H1B visa is not that easy. But yes, one needs to either have the same rights IF one is paying the same amount of taxes, social security, medicare and medicaid as any other employed US citizen. Show me the distinction in what an H1B pays to the government in the form of dues than what a US citizen pays. We can talk of regulating basic human rights corrected by a political system thereafter. Stop complaining else stop asking for taxes if you cannot better represent people.

Can you ever pay an H1B visa holder unemployment benefits? One has 10 days to leave the country if you loose your job. Imagine putting in 10 years of your life, building a house, a family, putting them through school… wrap it up in 10 days and leave??? Is that what the forefathers of US citizens came on shore with?? Can they confront this idea? I guess we all know the answers to this.

Now lets visit the other side of the coin. H1B system has been exploited. They have been exploited by companies big and small. There are those candidates who cannot speak English. or English at par with an American (with the accent). There are people who come in with fake degrees or fibbed resumes. There are companies who endenture people and skim off their paychecks. As much as 60 – 70%.

ALL for ONE THING. MONEY!!!

The companies looking to saving money hire H1 workers. From companies that are branded as consulting companies but are nothing more than ‘body shoppers’. They make them work for abot 50% of what they bill the clients for. The rest is just pocketed. Guess what. Most of those so called consulting companies are owned and operated by – US citizens!!
So the mega corps made the money by negotiating on benefits. And the small body shoppers make money by entangling such hardworking people by promising them a better future once they are naturalized as US citizens or atleast possess a green card.

Which also brings about another question. Imagine a H1B worker that came in as a student, started working, pays 15,000 a year as taxes yet, if s/he loses his or her job, will be forced with nothing but to leave the country. Are you telling me, that a person contributing close to about 50,000 to 75,000 over a 5 year period has no promise on becoming a part of a system that has promised and proven over years to teh success of companies as Microsoft, Intel, Google, NASA, companies in Medicines and health care, automobile, – you name it!

So dont blame the H1B worker. They are here in hopes of bettering their lives. Just as the earliest settlers did. the ones whose progeny todays prides itself or sees itself as being a US citizen. And distinguishes or for lack of words, discriminates H1B workers.

Fix a system that does not work. Bail yourself out by fixing corporate greed. Realize that the top 3% of the people control 97% of the world’s wealth. Its not upto an H1B worker to dictate your way of life so stop complaining but stand up and stand with the H1B worker to fight for the common good of all as humans.

Visit the basics of what H1B comprises of and then face off on the facts of how H1B workers work.

You will think twice before posting any more on this issue. If your education system is failing, dont blame the failure on a system nobody understands but on why your system of education has failed us all!!

Don’t feel too sorry for yourself,Aman…Along with thousands of other displaced IT professionals, I am also now looking for a job, and experience employer wariness of hiring anybody. The problem I have (and have had for the last 5 years) is that I can’t compete with H-1B visa candidates who will work for half, which, as I understand it, still beats Indian salary by a mile.

At that time the situation was not this bleak.Lehman had not crashed, but after I came here, the slowdown started.I had thought that I would work for 2 years in US,pay off my loan and go back to India.

Now the situation isnt the same, inspite of being in a top 30 school, the job scene is pretty sad because of two reasons.
1. The economy is in general slow
2. Bailout bill makes the employers wary of hiring international students.

Now I have a loan on my head and am looking for a job with the constant question of “what if” beating in my head because I might not be able to pay off the loan on an Indian Salary.

I don’t see how I’m denying H-1B workers anything. Once they are in the country on jobs, they are protected by their H-1B status. (Though it’s not much protection, as H-1B actually restricts their right to work anywhere but the company that sponsored them.)

What I’m suggesting should be restricted in such an economic emergency is the ability of companies that have been granted tax funds to survive to hire from outside the U.S.

How is that denying H-1B workers (who by definition have work already) any rights?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Generally speaking the U.S. must compete with foreign labor. But it’s quite clear that H-1B effectively subsidizes foreign labor by enabling U.S. employers to pay less to fill jobs.

H-1B workers need more rights. Once they are brought here, they should not be treated like indentured servants.

I don’t understand your comments. The H-1B system ALREADY denies H-1B workers equal opportunity. What I’m addressing is the employers, not the H-1B workers.