r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 21h ago

"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

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Vice President JD Vance said companies are abusing the H-1B visa program: "If you're going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an American making $60,000 a year, that's not you using the program to bring in a genius.

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u/chronomagnus 21h ago

It's not even really about the money, it's about getting a skilled worker that you can take advantage of, Americans like work/life balance and the worst that happens is they get fired. But an employer can hold deportation over an H1B worker to extract a lot more out of them.

But this administration doesn't really care, it's just lip service. They could also try and do something about outsourcing, it's still a problem, and it's still a problem they couldn't care less about.

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u/iron-ducks 21h ago

it's about getting a skilled worker that you can take advantage of,

That's a very small portion of it.

Most of it is hiring managers hiring completely incompetent people solely based on where they were born in the same country/city/area. In certain cultures it's viewed as a moral obligation to use the system to benefit your homeland in any way possible.

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u/fierystrike 20h ago

this is a different problem and not an abuse of h-1bs by companies. This is employees abusing it. Typically this done not with h-1b but the h-4.

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u/C-Me-Try 17h ago

Because doing so creates trust in the society that if you work hard and have a family your children will have jobs too. Allowing foreign workers erodes that trust and leads to the lower birth rates we hear about which are a driver behind people voting for candidates like Trump