Are H1B visa holders taking American jobs?

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https://www.quora.com/Are-H1B-visa-holders-taking-American-jobs

 

David Rowell, Have founded several companies, currently developing a new startup

Answered Apr 2, 2017

 

 

 

Yes, H1-B visas definitely do take jobs from Americans. I write this both as an immigrant myself (originally from New Zealand, came up on an L-1 visa, then green card, now naturalized citizen) and also as one who has regularly hired people through this program, myself. So I’ve seen both sides of work visas and immigration issues.

Unlike other types of visa, the H1-B is a self-certified visa where the employer says ‘Trust me - I was unable to find a local worker, and I’m truly paying fair market wages’. Other work visas are much more cumbersome, and require formally advertising the job in major newspapers to prove there are no applicants, and a Department of Labor certification that the salary being paid is fair. So, the simpler approach of the H1-B is popular, but the self-certification does make it open to abuse.

Clearly, there’s a bit of ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink’ going on with the H1-B visas, but that would perhaps be acceptable in some cases if, as H1-B supporters claim, the process is helping startup companies grow, bringing better talent to the US, and so on. But this is not what is happening.

The biggest abusers of the H1-B process are not small struggling startups. They are enormous multinationals. More than that, they are not American companies who are recruiting a slightly lower cost foreign worker. They are foreign companies ‘invading’ our country and bringing their own employees with them.

Look at this list of H1-B visas issued.

Three of the top four companies given H1-B visas are not American companies. Infosys, Tata and Wipro are all Indian companies. Sure, they have US subsidiaries, but they are owned and headquartered in India.

There are plenty of other Indian companies featuring prominently too. #7 and #8, plus others outside of the top ten. More than half of all H1-B visas are going to enable Indian companies with their Indian workers to come and compete directly against US companies and US workers.

You might also note that the average salaries paid to the Indian companies are lower than to the US companies. Apple shows an average of $137k for their 1,317 H1-B visa employees, Google shows $128k for their 4,048, but Tata is only $70k for their 16,553 and Infosys is $79k for their 33,289 employees.

Particularly for employees in the Silicon Valley area, these are low salaries in all cases, but the salaries are very much lower for the Indian companies than the US ones.

How is it that enormous companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon in total have hired fewer H1-B employees than Tata or Infosys, and about the same as Wipro alone (all Indian companies)? Why is it that the US companies are paying their people so much more?

No matter what nonsense people might put forward, these are the stark facts : While small little companies with bona fide need for specialists struggle to be issued a single H1-B visa, a handful of Indian companies between them get way over half of all H1-B visas issued, and are paying the people they bring over at rates which on the face of it seem to be massively below market rates.

The H1-B program has been totally twisted and perverted well beyond its original ideals and purpose, and the people who have done it are not even American companies. The H1-B visa program as it now is has become a lose-lose for American workers and for American companies who now are having to struggle against foreign companies, with foreign workers, but working against them here in the US.

The easiest part of H1-B visa reform would be to restrict it to only companies that are truly headquartered and owned in the US.

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HCL

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