Businesses brace for Trump decision on H-1B visas in wake of Sessions pick

Fox News.com ^ | November 25, 2016 | Adam Shaw

[Kaslin]

I agree completely.

My native language is German, and when my husband brought me to the states in 1966 I was already able to read, speak, and write in English. We married in 1962 and I had plenty of time to practice. Also he had me answer the letters his mother wrote.

[Kaslin]

This is awesome, thanks for the link

[Read Write Repeat]

Table 4A. H-1B Petitions Approved by Country of Birth of Beneficiary

Country of Birth	FY 2013	FY 2014
Total	286,773	315,857
India	187,270	220,286
China	23,429	26,393
Canada	7,971	6,853
Philippines	6,152	5,157
South Korea	4,843	4,390
United Kingdom	3,680	3,307
Mexico	3,114	2,768
Taiwan	2,470	2,406
France	2,322	2,218
Japan	2,464	1,983
Pakistan	2,147	1,923
Nepal	1,652	1,735
Germany	1,767	1,625
Turkey	1,683	1,619
Brazil	1,649	1,546
Colombia	1,361	1,290
Italy	1,381	1,283
Russia	1,313	1,241
Venezuela	1,310	1,230
Spain	1,188	1,155
Other countries	27,607	25,449

Source: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/H-1B/h-1B-characteristics-report-14.pdf

[Read Write Repeat]

There’s no reason for the H1-B program anymore.

[Robert357]

I have had personal experience as the employer of a foreign national intern who graduated college with an engineering degree and expected me to support his H1-1 visa application. Actually he had his attorney contact us asking us to pay all the attorney's costs for the application.

We said no, but offered $1,000 to assist the employee intern.

Ultimately the attorney wrote us and told us the young engineer needed to prove he was in high demand and that required a minimum salary of 25% above what we were willing to pay. We provided a trade association salary survey to show what market price was. The immigration attorney told us that salary level was not acceptable and he must advise his client to seek employment elsewhere. We told the employee we couldn't pay such outrageous salaries.

My experience is that this kind of Visa is a racket for attorneys and some software companies.

I have no problem with shutting it down.

[RideForever]

Google “Flanagan protest concord”.

[StolarStorm]

Wow! I’m surprised you didn’t cut that loose as soon as you were “demanded” to pay the visa fees. You dodged a bullet on that one. After hire, the “demands” would have increased.

[bobcat62]

I wonder how Disney will deal with this.

I know one of the former Disney IT workers. I believe Disney outsourced those IT jobs to HCL & Cognizant. A better question would be to ask now HCL & Cognizant will deal with the H1-B faucet being shutdown & capped.

[bobcat62]

The O-1 visa still exists for top talent. The snowflake tech employers would have to go through a rigorous process to justify this visa.

It’s easier for these snowflake tech employers to process and H1-B, which gives them cheap indentured slave labor.

[klimeckg]

thanks for the clarification. I will be watching the news on this one.