Newsweek
Currently, the H-1B visa is allocated through a lottery system, which is not intended to favor one company or applicant over another. However, larger companies can apply for more visas, resulting in a disproportionate number of H-1Bs being awarded to companies like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft.
In January, the Institute for Progress, a nonpartisan think tank examining innovation policy, floated the idea of eliminating the H-1B lottery. It argued that the economic value of the visa program could be increased by 88 percent if applicants were evaluated based on seniority or salary.
In doing this, IFP said, USCIS could ensure that H-1Bs went to the most-qualified temporary immigrants. More
All those Leftist DEI Companies are going to be major BUTTHURT because they will have to pay a higher wage to these people to work for them.
I don’t know. maybe instead of replacing it with merit, we just don’t replace it at all.
Just a way to NOT have to find qualified Americans for the job…or pay them what they deserve.
I work at a major, multinational corporation.
When I started here 28 years ago most of the people were American in the local facility where I work.
Now the majority are foreign, barely speak English, and obviously are H-1B hires.
They also SUCK at their jobs!
Jethro – and if Financialization didn’t play a larger role in corporate operation/profits, etc than design, manufacturing, sales, and customer satisfaction, that kind of poor choice would actually have a negative impact and would have been stopped.
The H1B visa has cut my lifetime earnings at least in half… If not more.
KR
“Just a way to NOT have to find qualified Americans for the job…or pay them what they deserve.”
As a long time employer I’m wondering what Mr. Liberty thinks the minimum wage should be? I’ll give him a clue. ZERO. I’ll pay you what you’re worth.