I tend to disagree with the argument that US is a most favorable place for IT professionals, particularly the way things are happening in US. I would like to discuss this in context of Indian IT professionals. First of all, US government is discouraging Indian IT professionals by imposing hell lot of restrictions in issuing work visa. This month I was shocked to see the current US Visa Bulletin pushes the EB2 category based Green card dates from 15 Feb 2004 to 01 Jan 2000. Secondly, it is unfair to disallow qualified Indian IT professional to work in a company who has received TARP money. There are umpteen instances, posted on the net, where Indian IT professionals who went to India for vacations have been deported at the port of entry while entering into US. Thirdly, in spite of request from various technology giants to increase H1-B cap, US government seems to be unfavorable to honor the request. One may argue that one side where Americans are losing jobs, why there is a need for increasing H1-B cap? My sincere argument is that as part of global economy, every one has to be competitive whether it is an individual or an organization. If US companies fail to get qualified people, they will lose out to rest of the world. India is no more behind when it comes to developing software and now India is progressing fast in developing products. Indians are getting treated unfavorably in US and my sincere request to Indian IT professionals is to work back home, flourish Indian economy and feel proud of it.
But from a political stand point, it is not fair to expect the US Government to sit back and watch their employees getting sacked because of the availability of immigrant low cost labor. Because Government can’t ask the business not to hire the foreign workers, they just use their control on H1B, Green Card, companies they own through TARP, etc. to sort of achieve the political target.
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Agree with you on the final recommendation :)
But from a political stand point, it is not fair to expect the US Government to sit back and watch their employees getting sacked because of the availability of immigrant low cost labor. Because Government can’t ask the business not to hire the foreign workers, they just use their control on H1B, Green Card, companies they own through TARP, etc. to sort of achieve the political target.
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