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by gokhan 4087 days ago
So, let's say Google wants to move you to US and wants to pay you $200.000+ because you're a unique scientist that filling a position that can't be filled by a US citizen. After spending time and money for the interview process, they apply for H-1B on behalf of you. Than there goes the lottery, than no luck, than what?

168.000 is pretty decent number to turn down after your own companies spend all those resources just for the selection of those applicants.
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dragonwriter 4087 days ago
>So, let's say Google wants to move you to US and wants to pay you $200.000+ because you're a unique scientist that filling a position that can't be filled by a US citizen. After spending time and money for the interview process, they apply for H-1B on behalf of you.

A "unique scientist" should probably be applying for an O-1A [0] rather than an H-1B.

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...

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bradleyjg 4087 days ago
The H1B is a bit of a hack for that situation. Let's leave aside qualifying for EB-1 or O-1 as my sibling commentors suggest. At a slightly lower level, what we'd really want to do to fix the problem you identify is to unclog the EB-3 backlog and especially the country specific EB-2 backlogs.

Employment based categories are only allocated 140,000 permanent visas a year (some of which are taken for NACARA catch-up).

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy...

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HarryHirsch 4087 days ago
For Nobel Prize winners and champion soccer players there's O-class visa. H1-B is for the plebs.
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rogeroga 4086 days ago
actually, Miguel de Icaza, from Gnome and Mono fame, got an O visa, I wonder what was the initial Visa that Linus Torvalds got, but he could well apply for that O, with no objection from me.
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chx 4087 days ago
Why would they even bother with these temporary visas? Just go for EB-1 if you are such a scientist. http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers...
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jedmeyers 4087 days ago
You can work for Google in a location outside the US for a year then file for L1 visa. However, recent experience shows that 1 year might not be enough.
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prostoalex 4086 days ago
Someone in the Google league is large enough to hire an individual in one of their non-US offices, and then apply for L-1 visa for intra-company transfers.
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