150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees
So this is the result of several factors that are at odds with each other.<p>1. There is no per-country quota on H1Bs<p>2. There is a per-country quota on EB-1&#x2F;2&#x2F;3 GCs<p>3. And this is crux of the problem: H1Bs are issued indiscriminately, most problematically to so-called bodyshops.<p>There are various proposals to fix the immigration backlog. There&#x27;s one bill that would get rid of per-country quotas. I wonder what that would do to the backlog of everyone. I kind of see this one as a nonstarter.<p>Bizarrely, it&#x27;s the current (otherwise abhorrent) administration that is the first to even talk about fixing the real problem, which is (3). H1Bs are a lottery now. When the likes of FAAMG companies can&#x27;t hire people because the likes of Infosys and Tata are flooding applications for people who will essentially become indentured servants, that&#x27;s a problem.<p>Infosys settled a visa fraud case with the US government several years ago including a payment of millions of dollars. How exactly are they still able to apply for visas?<p>There are problems with ranking applicants based on salary (or total compensation) as the one proposal would do. This would potentially drown out lower-paid STEM fields that have legitimate need with FAAMG SWEs. Then again... that&#x27;s still probably better than the current system.<p>People have also complained &quot;well you can&#x27;t hire graduates if you rank on salary&quot;. That&#x27;s true. But at the same time, are newly minted college graduates fulfilling unsatisfied demand for specialty occupation? Or just being used to lower labour costs?