[tremorscript]

I would like the H1B to be eliminated too.

The new immigrant is denied some basic rights like being able to find a new job without employer permission and the america suffers because it might not get quality. Because unless the situation in your home country is really desperate or you are in your early 20s, any decent experienced professional would balk at the terms in the H1B visa.

As for the standard, "immigrant keeping wages down thing". Maybe the US can look at the "Shareholder Value", "Stock Buybacks" and "Monopolies are efficient" philosophies pervading the economic establishment for "keeping the wages down".

[tlb]

Much of the pain of H1B is due to slow processing. You can change employers, but then you’re in a weird limbo until the paperwork makes it to the top of someone’s inbox. If everything was next-day processing, it’d be more humane. Perhaps LLMs can solve this.

[Akronymus]

Tbf, many people dislike both, what they perceive as rampant immigration, and also monopolies and other such anticompetitive practices.

[ta988]

There are different kinds of H1B. The academic ones are less problematic.

[linuxftw]

H1B is a non-immigrant visa. They're not supposed to be here long.

[thurn]

No, H1-B is a "dual intent" visa, i.e. you are allowed to transition from one to a green card. Something like a TN visa is actually intended for temporary skilled workers.

[seanmcdirmid]

The H1B terminates in a green card, after six years, quota willing. In fact, you don’t get an option in the matter. Compared with a true temporary work visa, like China’s Z visa, which can be renewed on every year indefinitely and doesn’t have any oath to permanent residency.

[the_svd_doctor]

> The H1B terminates in a green card, after six years, quota willing. In fact, you don’t get an option in the matter.

What? Most do, because usually people want to stay. But H1B does not “terminate in a green card” and you 100% have an option in the matter (you have to sign the I485…).

[seanmcdirmid]

You don’t get the option to renew an H1B more than once. If you don’t go the green card path, then what? You are going back home?

[the_svd_doctor]

Sure if that’s what you meant, then yeah. Imho that’s a weird way to put it.

You can renew indefinitely with an approved I140, btw (typical for backlogged Indians) (not that this doesn’t suck).

[x86x87]

Lol. You can apply for a GC correct. Will you get one? Depending on where you are born you may need to wait decades (yes, decades) to get one.

[seanmcdirmid]

If you are from India or maybe China, yes.