H-1B spouse work permits to end, says Trump administration

[nahtanbob]

Yeah, I know.



We were talking about outsourcing companies.

All outsourcing companies do their own training. Clients don't.

American variants of the outsourcing companies do training
Client train their permanent employees

 

[randomradio]

American variants of the outsourcing companies do training
Client train their permanent employees

Cool. But I think you should follow the discussion. We were talking about something else.

 

[nahtanbob]

Cool. But I think you should follow the discussion. We were talking about something else.

you make it sound like Microsoft, Intel and Google hire employees and do not "train" them

 

[randomradio]

you make it sound like Microsoft, Intel and Google hire employees and do not "train" them

That's why you should follow the discussion instead of reading selectively.

Someone said Microsoft (American company) trains TCS (contractor) employees using their own funds, so I corrected him.

This is what was said:
When the "American Company" contracts a outsourcing company, The American company invests in training the employees of the contractor.

 

[nahtanbob]

That's why you should follow the discussion instead of reading selectively.

Someone said Microsoft (American company) trains TCS (contractor) employees using their own funds, so I corrected him.

This is what was said:
When the "American Company" contracts a outsourcing company, The American company invests in training the employees of the contractor.

In a lot of cases the American company does it

 

[Serious Carrey]

The man is going to do some serious damage to US for another 2 years.

Trade sanctions, warmongering, in-fighting, tax cuts for already super rich corporates, marginalising and racism in own country and now on top of all that giving reasons to kick out immigrants who have legally entered after being selected and considered.

Guess the Americans will have to wait him out of power.

Yeah, he is burning all the bridges. Just hope he doesn't get elected for the 2nd term.

 

[randomradio]

In a lot of cases the American company does it

Only the first batch or two for a new outsourced process, until the contractor learns the software and the processes. Or minimum until those expected to train future batches are trained. After that, the Indian trainers who got trained take over. In most cases, it is not necessary anyway.

Those with H-1B are trained by the clients typically, but such employees do not run away after the training. So we were referring to Indian employees living in India, since the govt does not consider service contracts legal, and young employees typically run away if they don't like it there.

 

[Hindustani78]

https://www.thehindu.com/news/inter...ation-into-us-on-the-rise/article25083855.ece
September 29, 2018 21:14 IST
Updated: September 29, 2018 21:14 IST

9,000 nationals apprehended this year against 3,162 in 2017, says border agency
The number of Indians arrested for illegally entering the U.S. has nearly tripled so far in 2018, making them one of the largest groups of illegal aliens apprehended, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Friday.

Paying smuggling rings between $25,000-$50,000 per person, a growing number of Indians are illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and claiming asylum for persecution, CBP spokesman Salvador Zamora said.

Many present viable claims, but a large number are economic migrants with fraudulent petitions that swamp the system and can cause legitimate cases to be “washed out” in the high volume of fraud, Mr. Zamora said in an interview.

The Indian Embassy in Washington and the Indian Consulate in San Francisco did not respond to requests for comment.

Safe border city
Mr. Zamora said the CBP expects that the data for the fiscal year that ends on September 30 will show “around 9,000” Indian nationals had been apprehended versus 3,162 in fiscal year 2017. Around 4,000 Indians who entered the U.S. illegally this year did so over a three-mile stretch of border fence at Mexicali, Mr. Zamora said. “The word got out that Mexicali is a safe border city which favors their crossing into the United States,” he said. Asylum seekers range from lower caste people facing death threats for marrying outside their class to Sikhs claiming political persecution, immigration lawyers said.

After Mexicans, citizens of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were most likely to enter the U.S. illegally in 2018, according to Border Patrol data.

 

[cloud4000]

https://www.thehindu.com/news/inter...ation-into-us-on-the-rise/article25083855.ece
September 29, 2018 21:14 IST
Updated: September 29, 2018 21:14 IST

9,000 nationals apprehended this year against 3,162 in 2017, says border agency
The number of Indians arrested for illegally entering the U.S. has nearly tripled so far in 2018, making them one of the largest groups of illegal aliens apprehended, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Friday.

Paying smuggling rings between $25,000-$50,000 per person, a growing number of Indians are illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and claiming asylum for persecution, CBP spokesman Salvador Zamora said.

Many present viable claims, but a large number are economic migrants with fraudulent petitions that swamp the system and can cause legitimate cases to be “washed out” in the high volume of fraud, Mr. Zamora said in an interview.

The Indian Embassy in Washington and the Indian Consulate in San Francisco did not respond to requests for comment.

Safe border city
Mr. Zamora said the CBP expects that the data for the fiscal year that ends on September 30 will show “around 9,000” Indian nationals had been apprehended versus 3,162 in fiscal year 2017. Around 4,000 Indians who entered the U.S. illegally this year did so over a three-mile stretch of border fence at Mexicali, Mr. Zamora said. “The word got out that Mexicali is a safe border city which favors their crossing into the United States,” he said. Asylum seekers range from lower caste people facing death threats for marrying outside their class to Sikhs claiming political persecution, immigration lawyers said.

After Mexicans, citizens of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were most likely to enter the U.S. illegally in 2018, according to Border Patrol data.

Many Indians enter the US via more conventional means. They get visitor visas and overstay. US really needs to tighten the standards on who gets visas.

 

[PakSword]

Walmart, Walgreen and CVS are going to have a lot of open positions now.

Indians say this won't apply to Indian spouses. Because India is a very powerful country the US don't want to annoy.

 

[Tshering22]

Yeah, he is burning all the bridges. Just hope he doesn't get elected for the 2nd term.

If he does, NATO will be abandoned and a new EU Defence Coalition would start. Germany might see a more independent ruler (provided Germans can eliminate the puppet state system that has been established by US since WW2's end), backed by France, Poland, Spain, Italy and everyone else. UK might remain pro-US but a BREXIT would further weaken them to compel EU to do anything in US's favour.

 

[Serious Carrey]

If he does, NATO will be abandoned and a new EU Defence Coalition would start. Germany might see a more independent ruler (provided Germans can eliminate the puppet state system that has been established by US since WW2's end), backed by France, Poland, Spain, Italy and everyone else. UK might remain pro-US but a BREXIT would further weaken them to compel EU to do anything in US's favour.

What is your prediction about China if Trump gets elected for the second term?

 

[Hindustani78]

https://www.thehindu.com/business/I...-h-1b-visas/article25234048.ece?homepage=true

Washington, October 16, 2018 10:11 IST
Updated: October 16, 2018 15:41 IST
H-1B visas are typically issued for three to six years to employers to hire a foreign worker.

An information technology (IT) advocacy group representing more than 1,000 small companies mostly run by Americans has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for issuing shorter period H-1B visas.

The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.

These visas are typically issued for three to six years to employers to hire a foreign worker.

Based out of Dallas in Texas, the ITServe Alliance, in its 43-page lawsuit filed last week, alleged that the USCIS has recently begun a practice of approving H-1B petitions for shorter than three-year duration.

“These petitions are often valid for only months or days at a time, and some cases are expired by the time the approval is received,” it said.

The USCIS had no authority to misinterpret the existing regulations and shorten the approval durations. In fact, Congress had specifically granted power to the Department of Labour and DOL’s regulations grant three-year approvals. The the itinerary requirement put forth by the USCIS was also unlawful, the lawsuit said.

Second lawsuit against USCIS

This is the second lawsuit filed by ITServe against the USCIS. In the first one filed in July 2018, ITServe demanded the USCIS to remove language from their website prohibiting F-1 STEM OPT students working at the third part client locations.

“The USCIS has been making arbitrary rules and memos for over eight years, it’s our top priority to set things right and hold the USCIS accountable to follow the regulations set by the Unites States Congress,” said ITServe’s national president for 2018.

Referring to the recent spate of H-1B denials that ITServe members received, Mr. Kandukuri said that members of the ITServe Alliance were tired of receiving random denials for no reason.“The new battlefield for us is the federal courthouse and not USCIS service centres,” he added.

 

[Hindustani78]

https://www.thehindu.com/news/inter...s-us-report/article25269384.ece?homepage=true


Indians account for 73.9% of the total H-1B visa holders in the U.S.
Nearly three out of every four H-1B visa holders as of October 5 are Indian citizens, an official U.S. report has said.

According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), there were as many as 419,637 foreign nationals working in the U.S. on H-1B visas as on October 5.

Of these, 309,986 are Indians, the USCIS said in its report ‘H-1B petitions by gender and country of birth fiscal year 2018’

The report reveals a massive gender disparity — only one out of every four H-1B visa holders is female. Of the 419,637 H-1B visa holders, 106,096 (or 25.3%) are females as against 311,997 (or 74.3% males), it said.

Gender disparity is wider among Indians.

Of the 309,986 Indians on H-1B visas in the U.S. this October, only 63,220 or 20.4% are females while nearly 245,517 Indians on H-1B visas or 80% (79.2% to be precise) are males. As many as 1,249 Indians on H-1B visas have been characterised in the category of missing/others.

Indians, who account for 73.9% of the total H-1B visa holders in the U.S., are followed by a distant Chinese with 47,172 on H-1B visas, accounting for 11.2% of the total foreign nationals on this work visas.

But there is not much gender disparity among the Chinese on H-1B visas. According to the report, 21,342 or 45.2% are females and 25,718 or 54.5% are males.

After India and China, Canada and South Korea are the only two countries which account for a little over one% (1.1% to be precise) each on H-1B visas.

After that all other countries constitute less than 1% of the H-1B visas as of October 5.

The Philippines is the only country in top 10 H-1B visa holders wherein there are more females (1712 or 52.7%) on H-1B visas than males (1519 or 46.7%) on H-1B visas. As of October 5, as many as 3,250 professionals from the Philippines were on H-1B visas.

The H-1B gender report was released days after the Trump administration came out with its unified fall agenda, in which it said that it plans to make changes in the definition of specialty occupation for the definition of H-1B visas and re-redefining the relationship between employees and employers.

The proposed regulations, it said, is aimed at attracting the best and the brightest from across the world, prevent the abuse of H-1B visas which is consentient with the hire American agenda of the Trump administration.

The USCIS is also proposing to introduce a pre-registration system for foreign students in the U.S. Technically it is possible that if 85,000 such students succeed in getting H-1B visas, no overseas applicants could apply.