Microsoft Presses: More Green Cards For India IT

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Oracle, Google, Cisco, and Intel also push Senate to pass stalled legislation to end per-country caps on employment-based green cards.

By Paul McDougall InformationWeek
April 04, 2012 09:22 AM

Microsoft is calling on the Senate to pass stalled legislation that would put an end to per-country caps on employment-based green cards.
"Our current green card system is not up to the task, with highly valued professionals spending a decade or more mired in backlogs," said Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith in a blog post. "Government officials are warning that these backlogs will become even more severe next month, especially for individuals born in India and China."

Smith called on the Senate to pass the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (H.R. 3012)), which sailed through the House of Representatives in November with a 389-15 vote. The act would make the 140,000 employment-based green cards that the U.S. issues each year available on a first come, first served basis. Currently, individuals from any one country can account for no more than 7% of the total work-related green cards issued.

"The Senate should act now and pass this important legislation," said Smith.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/232800248

[hifiguy]

1. There are no Americans who can fill these positions?

Oracle has a number of floors in the building in which I work. There are already tons of Indians working here. Again, there are no American citizens to do these jobs? Somehow I do not believe this is the case.

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2. they looked hard, but couldnt find any

none of them were qualified

Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers.

[hifiguy]

3. That is revolting on every possible level.

[bart95]

4. thank goodness we have democrats to protect us

NOT

US senator promises more L1, H1B visas for Indians

Amid Indian IT firms' concerns over restrictive US visa policies for their employees, a top American senator has assured that he is working on a bipartisan bill that will reform immigration laws and allow more Indians to come to America.

Influential US Senator from New York Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met noted Indian-American hotelier and Chairman of Indian-American Democrats Sant Singh Chatwal at his Manhattan hotel here on Friday.

During the nearly hour-long meeting, the three discussed India-US bilateral relations and concerns of Indian IT firms on problems in obtaining work visas like H1B and L1 for their employees.

http://profit.ndtv.com/News/Article/us-senator-promises-more-l1-h1b-visas-for-indians-300441

(dont you love how schumer and reid are on an indian website called 'profit'?)

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. This. n/t

[treestar]

8. But not really the point here

Here it's just the caps for each country. Does it matter whether these job stealers all come from one country or whether they are split up among different countries?

[bart95]

10. the jobs go a lot faster if there's no limit for india and china

because there's no wage arbitrage with japan and europe

[treestar]

16. An immigrant here is an immigrant here

What difference does it make what happens in their country?

What difference does it make what country they come from?

[Zalatix]

9. If Americans get these jobs, the prices of everything will go up. That's the free traitor line

of thinking.

[LibDemAlways]

5. Colleges continue to offer courses in Computer Science to Americans

who have little hope of landing an IT job. When my husband was laid off two years ago, he quickly discovered that his only option was something government-related that required American citizenship. Even though he was more than qualified, Microsoft, HP, etc. wouldn't even talk to him. At one job fair in the SF Bay area, employers were only talking to H1-B green card holders. It's a disgrace.

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7. yup - our family support the party for years, to end discrimination against everyone, but

me

US senator promises more L1, H1B visas for Indians

Amid Indian IT firms' concerns over restrictive US visa policies for their employees, a top American senator has assured that he is working on a bipartisan bill that will reform immigration laws and allow more Indians to come to America.

Influential US Senator from New York Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met noted Indian-American hotelier and Chairman of Indian-American Democrats Sant Singh Chatwal at his Manhattan hotel here on Friday.

During the nearly hour-long meeting, the three discussed India-US bilateral relations and concerns of Indian IT firms on problems in obtaining work visas like H1B and L1 for their employees.

http://profit.ndtv.com/News/Article/us-senator-promises-more-l1-h1b-visas-for-indians-300441

(dont you love how schumer and reid are on an indian website called 'profit'?)

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12. But since the federal government uses lots of contractors

the contractors can get around that pesky citizenship requirement.

My husband works in IT for a federal contractor. Many of his co-workers are H1-Bs. It's sickening.

I don't want our tax money spend to hire foreigners to take jobs that should go to American citizens.

[LibDemAlways]

14. I should have specified that the only jobs for Americans in the field of

computer science these days are those requiring a US security clearance. Otherwise, forget it.

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6. That is going to go over well

OTOH, the per country caps are sort of stupid. Who cares what nationality the person is who steals your job? Do we feel better because in a few cases it may be a German rather than an Indian?

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11. there's no wage arbitrage with Germany

engineers arent treated like shit in germany

and that's the whole point of the program

it's the ONLY point

[treestar]

15. OK, French then

The point is immigrant to the United States. What difference does it make where they come from? Presumably those against "job stealing immigrants" don't want their jobs stolen by Europeans any more than Indians.

[Egalitarian Thug]

17. With the exception of Google, these are the same parasites that bought the Clinton

administration and got the program expanded in the first place.

As long as we keep falling for it, they will keep doing it. They think we are so stupid that we will sit idly in front of the TV and let them kill the very concept of America. So far they are right.