Can you imagine living here for many years, having a rented house with all the furniture, a car, bank accounts, gym memberships, friend groups, kids enrolled in local schools, and then suddenly being thrown out of the country without even having a chance to liquidate any of it just because Meta or Amazon has just dropped another 10k people layoff and and you're unlucky to be a part of it?
It's probably better to make a little less in a country that will treat you far better.
How did things work under Clinton, Bush, and Obama?
With no grace period at all, you'd just have to abandon them, and I guess try to sell them remotely if you even can.
Has to have been brutal during the recessions
60-day period is incredibly short to sort out one's belongings (and dependents) but it at least promises a way to let you leave legally, with some dignity. This proposal of elimination just reads like a plan to render people illegal and hunt them down.
fired and on an h1b? Gotta take an emergency plane outta here on short notice?
Mail us your car and apartment keys and we'll liquidate your assets for you and wire the funds to you
We are seeking 1M$ for 10% of the company
definitely a request to fulfill.
No one seems to care in this admin. Absolutely wild.
We have to integrate millions of immigrants and their children from Latin America who have come to the US over the last decade. They’re going to want to have upward mobility for their children. The kids of the fruit pickers are going to want to become doctors and professionals just as with prior waves of low skill immigration. It makes no sense to import new skilled workers, especially as many of those jobs are going to be automated away.
The US med school system with residencies and med school slots needs a total overhaul. I'm not arguing that. I would rather have higher skilled immigrants than lower skilled if possible, and I would even prefer that to promoting less meritorious US workers if they are unqualified.
Edit: typo
This is by design: https://www.newsweek.com/there-are-limited-spots-doctors-med...
(And 20% is barely above the overall US foreign born population, which is at 15%: https://www.statista.com/chart/8083/immigrants-foreign-born-...)
The better solution (for me) is to open up the slots since there is such a huge shortage of doctors. NPs and RNs are not going to make up that expertise gap.
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I ask this question because I don't have any exposure to h1b hiring, so I really do not have any sense for what really goes on. It sounds like these programs get abused, but there is a lot of noise out so I can't be sure.
definitely not a good time for H1Bs
“New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore” (ieee.org)
This was the point of the visa. Now tell me how many people under H1B fall into that category.
The point of H1B is that the talent is so rare and valuable that it can’t be found domestically. If you get fired or laid off, hate to say it but you weren’t valuable enough to keep around.
I believe that’s already the law. https://www.uscis.gov/archive/options-for-nonimmigrant-worke...
“The maximum 60-day grace period starts the day after termination of employment, which is typically determined based on the last day for which a salary or wage is paid.”
That likely was the assumption and source of trust, i.e. enforcement's goal is to uphold order and has a sense of logic when being implemented. The current upset has a context of the breach of such trust. In other words, the enforcement now is sometimes aligned with Trump's domestic politics maneuver rather than immigration law enforcement, it is increasingly hard to not interpret new rules between the lines.
A week should be plenty. And it’s not just some random different country, it’s their home country. There’s always your stateside consulate.
If you imagine you can leave one country, that you have lived in for a somewhat extended period of time, for another one within a week just because you are heading home, I'm sorry but have you ever moved across borders for something other than tourism.
They have phones you can call to cancel service
> What about google accounts etc that's implicitly tied to a US phone number?
That’s a problem between you and Google, not the US government
Since H1B visa holders possess valuable business skills that can’t be found domestically it makes sense to recruit them when they become available