H-1B visa

Summary Critique: “Older IT Pros Pushed Aside By Younger H-1B Workers” In the article published in Computerworld Digital Magazine, titled “Older IT Pros Pushed Aside By Younger H-1B Workers”, Patrick Thibodeau examines the controversy surrounding the H-1B Visa program. According to Thibodeau, the controversy regarding the H-1B Visa program stems from the debate on whether it is discriminatory toward age (3). The author raises the notion that there are numerous, current studies that demonstrate that there is a young age range for H-1B applicants, while he also considers the fact that there might be a valid reason for this that is not blatantly preferential (Thibodeau 5). He challenges that claim while mentioning that the underlying issue within…

Devyn Vermette POLS 100 01 News Analysis 4 Trump May Weigh In On H-1B Visas, But Major Reform Depends On Congress The news story I chose this week on NPR, covered the pressing need for reform of the H-1B visas. This H-1B program grants permission for “thousands of highly skilled foreigners” work in the United States. This article seems to pertain specifically to the technical jobs that they uphold in the U.S. Essentially, this system has become corrupt due to things like a lottery…

within an action that already occurs: having H-1B visas. These visas positively boost our community through both the economy and benefiting lives. If we want to improve the lives of the citizens of our nation, we should consider raising the cap. First, we need to be able to understand what H-1B visas--more specifically what the H-1B visa program truly is. It is a program that companies use to hire workers…

This workforce shortage has diminished the competitiveness of the US global economy and threatened national security. Not all analysts agree with the three reports, arguing that STEM executives are causing the domestic STEM workforce shortages. This paper analyses both arguments regarding the domestic STEM workforce shortage: that foreign workers on H-1B visas are beneficial to our labor supply since US schools are not producing enough STEM graduates, and that the domestic STEM workforce…

Government, the H-1B visa program. This long-running program was created to allow companies to hire temporary foreign workers to fill highly skilled positions that Americans cannot fill. The H-1B is good for three years and may be renewed for another three years. These workers may also apply for green cards while in the program and are granted additional time in the program till they get the green card. There are 85,000 visas granted each year in a lottery held by United States Citizenship and…

COMPLAINT On June 2, 2016, the Office of the Bar Counsel received a complaint from Lynette Fast Horse regarding Attorney Paul T. Shane. The complainant, a former employee, believes that Shane has failed to appropriately handle immigration matters. Fast Horse alleges that Murray is in violation of Mass.R.Prof.C. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 8.4(c). FACTS Fast Horse has provided information regarding nine separate complaints, a synopsis of each complaint is as follows: Complaint #1 On March 7, 2016, Myung…

begin what exactly is H1B visas? H1B is a non-immigrant visa in the US under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations (USCIS.gov). This allows companies to get skilled workers with market flexibility if they have a shortage domestically. H1B visas also allows companies to employ workers at a lower cost than those that would work domestically, with a large amount of them coming from India, according to Stephan…

available after the 8th anniversary of the publications of the regulations (MPI 10). For fees purpose, anyone that applies for blue-card status over the age of 21 is subject to a penalty of $100. Once applicants who have been blue-card holders for five or more years, they are eligible to apply for LPR status. There are two requirements that they must meet in order for them to do so. First off, they must average 100 days of work in agricultural type work for more than five years of their…

work twice as hard and twice as fast in order to earn any sort of wages for themselves and their families. As the Bracero Program met its end on December 1, 1964, “at its peak drew more than 400,000 workers a year across the border. A total of about 4.5 million jobs had been filled by the time the bracero program was abolished in 1964.” (Bauer) One considerable reason for the program’s termination stemmed from the introduction of the mechanical cotton harvester coupled with the presence of…

though I am doing right things. However, a few years later, I realized that I did lead them a wrong way. Now, I try to love my self first and make my boundary as focusing on myself. 2. How will you keep things in perspective? • You said, “God send you here.” When I had applied Columbia Theological Seminary in 2014, I did not have enough money to study abroad, my English was not good, and my parents did not support me to go study abroad. Even, a lot of people who applied the seminary in U.S.A.…