A Good Reason to Boycott Disney

mcat2
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:22:30 +0000

It is also the case that the outsourcing companies are gaming the visa system to take most of the visas for low end IT employees.

I heard from a colleague that some H1-B applicants from overseas submitted multiple applications per person using a variation of their names in order to increase the odds of getting the H1B visa. Not sure if it is true. They do not have a number like social security number yet, so it is hard to verify.

In a sense, these companies essentially use the visa from the US (the ultimate “bait”: the green card, if they are lucky after N years) as a part of their “compensations” so that they do not have to pay as much. You could argue that it is the US government subsidizes these companies using the visa as baits.

Last year, I read from an Internet article/news that if an Indian got a temporary work visa (likely similar to our H1B) to work in UK, the visa could be used as a part of the “bargaining chips” in a marriage negotiation – the ownership of such a visa could be translated to a certain amount of “market price”. The reason is that the spouse of that temporary worker in UK could possibly be eligible for work (or could apply for it) as well – this would enable him/her, the spouse, to make much more money in UK than back in his/her country of origin. So, just a temporary work visa is considered as worthing X dollars from their point of view. At least, this gives the hiring company an edge to recruit their workers so that it will not have to pay as much. In the long run, it helps depress the wage for workers in that field, even for domestic workers – the owners of the business, the stock holders, are happy. Some argue that this is one reason why in the past few decades, there are little (if any) gains in wages in many fields.