The Biden administration plans to facilitate the residency and employment of skilled Indian workers in the United States during Prime Minister Narendra Modi s state visit.
The tech war between nations is well-established – the US and China being the least coy about this battle. There is another (more subtle) war happening: the battle for talent is quietly turning into a more global competition.
me. that s right, our earlier this year the big time companies allow massive layoffs, thousands upon thousands of jobs. it turns out around the time they re announcing the layoffs, they were discreetly filing obligations to the labor department for the foreign high-tech jobs, the h1b visas. according to new disclosures i was able to get my hands on and you re right. when the program was created in the early 90s, supposed to be tailored to file technical skills gap within the american workforce, it has ballooned and now something like 600,000 foreign workers. and it is widely abused by the big tech industry and it is something that both democrats and republicans have promised a crackdown on but it keeps happening. will: to give you a color, to fire an american worker making $100,000 a year, you
The primary fee for an H-1B visa would increase from USD 470 to USD 1,595 which allows college-educated immigrants to live and work in the United States for up to six years before becoming permanent residents
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