Leo Wang grew up thinking America was the place to achieve his dreams. After an agonizing process applying for an H-1B visa, he had to leave the US.
Headquarters of hard drive and computer hardware maker Seagate in the Silicon Valley, Fremont, California, on July 28, 2018.But Wang's hopes were dashed on January 4, 2019, when USCIS formally denied his petition for the H-1B visa that would have allowed him to continue working at Seagate, according to documents INSIDER viewed.
But that's not quite how recent changes to the program have played out, immigration lawyers who specialize in H-1B visas told INSIDER. Jafri said he sees USCIS raise similar concerns in more than half the H-1B cases his firm files. Often, the agency raises those concerns in the form of"requests for evidence", which can stall H-1B petitions for months, as Wang's was.
"There seems to be a resistance on the part of USCIS of almost all H-1B cases, because they are looking to see, 'Is this consistent with this directive that Americans should buy American goods and hire American workers?'" Jafri said."US companies don't proactively go out and hire foreign workers. They do it because there's a shortage of certain types of skilled labor, and American companies try to bring the best talent on, period.
"H1-B holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship," Trumpon January 11."We want to encourage talented and highly skilled people to pursue career options in the U.S." "The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans - including immigrants themselves and their children - to earn a middle class wage," a
"Despite the economic evidence that there's not a zero-sum game in job production, I think the policy is gong to continue to be based on the premise that every time someone new enters the labor force, someone loses a job, despite the economic evidence that that's simply not true," Anderson said."Because there's no such thing as a fixed number of jobs."
In 2014, for instance, 13 global outsourcing companies took roughly one-third of all the available H-1B visas, according to aBut experts say there are better ways to crack down on abuse from outsourcing firms.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
U.S. fines American Airlines, Delta for long tarmac delaysAmerican Airlines was fined $1 million and Delta Air Lines Inc $750,000 for viol...
Lire la suite »
U.S. trade chief courts auto union to back North American trade pactU.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and his staff will head to Michigan ...
Lire la suite »
Trump announces return of American hostage held in Middle EastDanny Burch, an American citizen, was abducted in September 2017.
Lire la suite »
Trump Is Misleading the American People About North KoreaAnalysis: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a threat. It's time for the president to say so.
Lire la suite »
Trump says American held captive in Yemen has been freedPresident Trump announced Monday that American citizen Danny Burch has been freed after 18 months of captivity in Yemen.
Lire la suite »
Ivanka Trump: Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t understand the American people like I doThe first daughter went on Fox News to talk about AOC, the Green New Deal, and socialism.
Lire la suite »
Newt Gingrich: The world is fraying—but American media is too busy criticizing Donald Trump | OpinionBecause of the mainstream media's myopic focus, we simply don’t have a very good understanding of what is happening abroad.
Lire la suite »
‘He tells me he didn’t know’: Trump defends Kim Jong Un over death of Otto WarmbierThe president condemned the “brutality of the North Korean regime” after the college student died in 2017 but took a softer stance at his summit with Kim in Hanoi.
Lire la suite »