• MEDIA: Many Indian students badly hit by low selection rate in H-1B vis

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 19 11:04:53 2023
    Via Google [spit], <URL:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=H-1B>
    see Times of India's Ishani Duttagupta on whether Donald Trump regrets slow-walking John Miano's lawsuit to end George Bush's extra-legal OPT
    and Barack Obama's extra-legal H-4EAD programs: <URL:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/many-indian-students-badly-hit-by-low-selection-rate-in-h-1b-visa-lottery/articleshow/99438496.cms>
    | The H-1B registrations of such students were never selected in the
    | lottery, despite them earning a US master's degree which gives them
    | the advantage of the advanced degree exemption, under the H-1B cap,
    | of 20,000 additional visas thus increasing the chances of selection.
    |
    | "A lot of these individuals have since been forced to return home to
    | India and thankfully, because technology and remote work is what it
    | is today, they have continued working for these same employers from
    | a remote work standpoint. But it is not the same and the ultimate
    | goals in life for them and their families is to carve out a slice of
    | the American dream by being sponsored for an H-1B cap petition," Kim
    | added.
    |
    | Many Indian students who were on OPT and hoping to transition to H-
    | 1B, but have not been lucky in the lottery, may now resort to Day-1
    | curricular practical training (CPT); which is for overseas students
    | holding an F-1 student visa and actively studying; for continued
    | employment in US and maintenance of status, feels Gokare.

    Will Mitch McConnell ask Julie Su if her beancounters at DoL.GOV
    believe that giving scab workers running the master's lottery first
    and giving scab workers with master's degrees from Big .EDU two
    chances for golden tickets to the American labor market has increased
    wages for scab workers?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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