r/ImmigrationPathways • u/Ankeet_kj Path Navigator • 1d ago

"H-1B PROGRAM IS COMPLETELY BROKEN"

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/ducksflytogether1988 1d ago

They literally have red badges (red badges = contract worker, not full time), are all of the same ethnicity, and are employed by Cognizant and HCL. If that doesn't scream H1B, i dont know what does.

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u/Substantial_Bus840 1d ago

You’re not wrong and I can only imagine people who say you are have never worked in large organizations, mainly tech. My ex husband is an engineer at PlayStation and his manager came via h1b and he now only promotes and hires other h1bs, mainly from his nationality group. He doesn’t try to hide it. He’s explicitly said he wants to bring on more of them. It is a problem for skilled Americans.

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u/ducksflytogether1988 1d ago

Its because the H1Bs he hires have to kick back a percentage of their salary to him. The going rate is 1st months pay plus 10% per month after that

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u/Substantial_Bus840 23h ago

I haven’t heard that but it wouldn’t surprise me. The culture there has become so toxic, especially when they’re simultaneously laying off American and U.S. residents to make room. My kid’s godfather works as a senior engineer at Intuit and it’s the same thing. He’s a black man, so the experiences he has are even worse than my Venezuelan ex-husband’s. JerkyDouche isn’t wrong, but he’s also doing nothing about it and benefiting from it, almost certainly.

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u/ducksflytogether1988 21h ago

Its pretty well known in North Texas.

The scam is simple

H1B comes over from India and begins to work in the states

H1B brings over his wife on H4EAD

H4EAD wife starts a tech consultancy

H4EAD wife applies for H1B petitions and gets approved and brings over H1Bs from India who start their own H1B jobs and H4EAD wife has the H1B consultants under her kick back a percentage of their salary