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darkdreams | 8 years ago | on: DHS proposes to repeal Work Authorization to Spouses(H4) of H1B visa holders

Wow! You don't hold back on the stereotypes do you? Practically none of the people I know do this. Infact they tend to do better wage/house wise than the general population if you take a look at the data. By no restriction of spouses on E3, it allows a person to do any job including being a Walmart cashier, hairdresser anything like that - which generally tend to be lower paying jobs - even less than 60k. There are people on h4 ead making more than 120k+. So it's not even about low wages as well. If you take a look at all the decisions taken on immigration over the past year (Muslim country ban, GC lottery and chain migration policy potential changes, extensive rfe on applications)it looks like an attempt to make immigration from non-"Western" countries tougher - which is perfectly fine. It just shouldn't be packaged as something else.

darkdreams | 8 years ago | on: DHS proposes to repeal Work Authorization to Spouses(H4) of H1B visa holders

The E-3 visa (meant for Australians) doesn't have any work restrictions on spouses. Why isn't the administration targeting those visas/ead if this is indeed about "Hire American and buy American" ?

darkdreams | 8 years ago | on: Royalties from Writing a Hit Song with Justin Bieber

Seconded. I think the software industry is an example where the "creators" just get a salary.If you are lucky or an early stage employee, you may get some equity. Software that we write creates billions for corporations but we never get a share. Question: Why do musicians & "creative" people get royalties for what they do and not others? If value creation is the argument, I would argue we are also creating value. I am not asking to be mean, but I am curious.

darkdreams | 9 years ago | on: H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms

Slightly off topic. My understanding is that for every H-1B application that is filed the US government takes a ACWIA fee that is supposed to be used for improving competitiveness of the American worker and providing scholarships.

From https://www.uscis.gov/forms/h-and-l-filing-fees-form-i-129-p...

"SEC. 414 Collection and use of H-1B nonimmigrant fees for scholarships for low-income math, engineering, and computer science students and job training of United States workers".

I am curious whether they could quantify/prove/debunk the skills shortage theory using the scholarships that are given. Does anyone know about this?