[aiisahik]

Really?

1. Is that why they give special virtually uncapped visa classes to Australia, Singapore, Canada and Chile while everyone else has to deal with h1B?

2. Do you think there are country based limits when admitting people through the southern border or granting refugee status?

[aiisahik]

Australians, Chileans and Singaporeans are eligible for a class of work visa that basically has no cap (or cap has never been reached). They don't have the complete with the unwashed masses who have to deal with H1B.

[selimthegrim]

Was this not the thank you from GW Bush to Australia for support in Iraq? Were you able to avail yourself of this visa?

[dudul]

I have no idea what these have to do with the matter being discussed here. We're talking about legal immigration and cap applied to visa/green card.

What is "virtually uncapped"? Do you have a source explaining how Australia, Singapore, Canada and Chile are treated differently? And as an FYI, I see no problem with Canada having a special regime.

[aiisahik]

https://www.jackson-hertogs.com/us-immigration/temporary-wor...

BTW Mexico gets the same special regime as Canada under NAFTA.

[dudul]

Thanks for the link. After reading a bit about H1B1 it looks like 1. It is included in the H1B cap, ergo it is de facto capped 2. It is actually capped as a portion of the available H1B.

No clue what parent meant by virtually uncapped.

[aiisahik]

"Provides 1,400 visas annually for Chileans and 5,400 visas annually for Singaporeans, counted separately from the H-1B visa cap"

[dudul]

"Of the 65,000 visas allocated to the capped H-1B visa program, the amount of 6,800 are reserved for use for the H-1B1: 1,400 for Chile and 5,400 for Singapore."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B1_visa

Counted separately but included in the overall cap.

Another interesting difference is that H1B1 seems to not be dual intent, contrary to H1B. Definitely not the panacea that was hinted at in this thread.

[linhvn]

They get a special, non immigrant work visa. If they want to apply for green card they subsequently need to apply for H-1B.