H-1B visas used by firm to create low-cost workforce, U.S. alleges

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64. You presume a great deal

I make no "analysis" - I'm merely offering the impressions I've made from having worked with a great many H-1B petitions over the years. Your assumption that candidates can learn whatever skills they need to perform the job is mistaken. For instance, many of the people I worked with were software localization engineers who prepared foreign language versions of Windows. How swiftly could you acquire native proficiency in Uzbek, do you think? Do you imagine that it's an unreasonable requirement for a software engineer crafting an Uzbek language version of Windows to actually be able to speak Uzbek? Or should everyone else around the planet just use the English language Windows because you don't want any of them foreigners taking your job?

Your concern about having excessive job requirements is valid, but such tailored job descriptions should be - and often are - denied by the Department of Labor as unduly restrictive. As for advertising, you are again mistaken. The Department of Labor dictates which publications possess sufficient circulation to be an acceptable advertising medium and they invariably choose the newspapers with the largest circulation possible. They also dictate how long ads must be run and it's usually at least a week and has to include at least one Sunday edition.

As for prevailing wage determinations, again, I admit I don't know much about the methodology, other than that the Department of Labor conducts wage surveys of all of the positions they have classified for each region within their jurisdiction. You say that is skewed. You perhaps know more about their methodologies? Would you perhaps care to share how it is that you know so much more about the proper way of surveying wages than the Department of Labor does?

I hate to disappoint you - I know it's so much more satisfying to blame the problems of the world at the feet of some sinister foreigners and the tone of your posts makes it plain that you are champing at the bits to do so - but your arguments ring hollow and sound a whole lot more like conspiracy theory than fact.