Employment-based Visas

America's highest-skilled workers are being displaced from their professions by employment-based visas:

H-1b: Congress has authorized employers to sponsor and hire foreign workers regardless of whether qualified Americans are available to fill the positions. Employers can legally force Americans to train their foreign H-1b replacements as a condition of receiving a severance package.
L-1: Congress has authorized employers to bring foreign workers into the U.S. for one year while continuing to pay them their foreign wage level.
PERM: Congress has authorized employers to sponsor foreign workers for green cards by simply running a few classified ads and then to find any reason possible to disqualify all American applicants.

H-1b Harm Statements

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Member

Company

H-1b Harm Statement

123456
Cincinnati, OH
Telecom Tech

greencard workers from india, outsourcing tech support jobs to asia.

1resistance
San Jose, CA
Java Web Application Developer

Symantec Corporation

My current company's IT is saturated with foreign workers. All are picked over American workers as most if not all the hiring managers and the upper management are foreign workers themselves and it has nothing to do with their skill set, it has to do with the fact that they are willing to work for less money, that is it. The H1b and L1 process needs to be reformed. I am asking for the most basic right of any American; the right to make a living.

2373me
Jackson, WY
Application Developer, Consultant

I worked in the field of technology, in Web design until Oct 2000 when all the jobs were outsourced and am witnessing it in my current occupation, which was not flooded until recently. Worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton, Maxim Group, WEFA, and many others.

abraxton
Dallas, TX
Senior Consultant

IBM

IBM hires H1 workers to replace US workers in USA inc lncuding me

albin
Temperance, MI
Developer/consultant

After years of not finding employment in my field, even with over 20 years of experience, I found contract work in Missouri in May 2007 and am still working. Savings and retirement are gone and I am approaching retirement age. When vesas for foreign workers were cut, I amazingly started to get serious phone calls for employment and got my current temporary position for a fair wage working for an employment agency. If you increase vesas for foreign workers in the IT field I am sure my work will dissapear just like it did years ago.

aliak1celip
Falls Church, VA
Reporter

I am writing a story on the h1b legislation pending before Congress. I am especially interested in people who work for government contractors who have been affected by the h1b visa program. Thank you. Please contact by email to set up an interview.

americanswengr
Seattle, WA
Senior It And Supply Chain Management Expert

Yahoo!

I don't know where to begin. I don't know all of the damage. Most recent discrimination is against Yahoo! The day after they hired me as a consultant. 4 new Indians came in on the plane. My contracting agence said if I did not agree to a lower wage they would not use my services. I believe they have mostly H1-Bs working in their Bellevue offices. in IT.

angel
Orlando, FL
Sr. Analyst / Project Manager

I was fired for complaining about incompetent H1B "programmer" Have been discriminated against on basis of race where foreign national was given preference -- 4 times!

arieln
Fairfield, CA
Senior Sap Consultant

Its getting harder to find work.

arvmrv
Arlington, TX
Programmer/analyst

Healthmarkets, Inc./Bell Helicopter

I get laid off, the Indians stay there, company after company. HealthMarkets, Inc./Bell Helicopter

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