H 1B Visa

“Sort of a strange thing to give up your green card, get an H one so that she could join, but it all worked out. So you know, it's a long lost memory, but it was, you know, a way to work around it.”

“And the brilliant thing to do is to take the 100,000 and make it an auction. I would auction off half of these to the highest bidder.”

“I think, you know, it's obvious that GCCs will benefit because H-one B visas were really people going to work, right? And GCCs represent work coming to people, right? So people happen to be in India and Poland and, you know, Manila or in Vietnam or, you know, …”

“By the way, a lot of these companies that if you just limit H-Bs, they all have overseas a lot of the big companies have overseas headquarters. So they're going to just offshore the jobs instead of bringing the jobs here.”

“If you look over the past decade, roughly half the H-one Bs go to these like IT consulting firms and the average salary is like 65,000 dollars a year.”

“Elon came in on an H-B, Sundar Pichai came on an H-B, Satya Nadella came in on an H-B.”

“So what these companies allegedly are doing is putting these jobs in these, like, obscure newspapers so that Americans don't see them.”

“It also has an unintended consequence. It might accelerate investment outside United States.”

“There are a number of organizations that are consultancies. That actually are price sensitive. That would be squeezed by this. I would think that You know, given that they're in the top 15, they make up like four or five of them. That would be a significant fr…”

“The folks who are coming on H-Bs today, like me, like many other people who came at some point, you know, do end up creating jobs in this country and do end up, you know, helping build businesses in this country. So I'm on the take, which is like, let's not lo…”

“I think there's a confusion with the argument with a lot of people who aren't in the tech world where there's, I think there's two types of businesses. One type of business is more like yours where it's just like super fast growth. It's clear how this could be…”

“I hope that when it comes to bringing talent to the United States, we will recognize that, ah, we don't train enough engineers. We really need H-I-B visas to get people to come here.”

“In 1990, we said, okay, we will allow 65,000 of them a year. And the trouble is that there are many, many more people. There's like over demand than there is supply. And so the cap, which is 65,000 H one B's every year in. 1997, if I remember correctly, basica…”

“And so you think about last year, same 65,000 spots, 780,000 people registered.”

“We want to 10 X the number of people getting a ones approved, because there's no reason why there are 65,000 people getting H one B's and only 10,000 people getting a ones.”

“It's basically 85,000 a year, and it's been that way for, you know, 20 years.”

“In Canada last week you know, the government announced an aggressive push to recruit technology workers from around the world to Canada, so they made it easier for tech workers to get what they are calling a digital nomad visa, so you can now go and work you k…”

“We also were on H-one B immigrant visas in the US. So our visa was tied to our current job.”

“The reality was that I was still on an H-one B visa and I couldn't. And so I just continued working at Google and just kept building stuff there, hoping that one day I would get a green card so that I could work in my own company.”

“In Q-III, for all the H-I-Bs that were filed, 22.5% received RFE's. It's a little bit higher than the Q-II and the Q-I figures of 13.5 and 17.3% respectively, But it's still within the realm of reason. Fast forward to Q-IV, when everything kind of started happ…”

“I strongly believe we have to not vilify this community, and we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We need to deal with H-I-B visas.”