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There is already a path to citizenship for H1-B citizens.

As usual, no specifics from this imbecile.

It doesn’t even give you the right to change employers. Someone needs to sponsor you before you can get a green card. If you work for a bad company that takes advantage of its employees, they’ll never sponsor you, because then they would lose their control over you.

But no worries. Canada is happy to take all those highly educated foreigners that so many Americans love to hate.

“H1-B [sic] holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship."

I was replying to the above statement when I said they already have that. If they hold an H1-B visa, there is a path to citizenship.

In my experience a company that goes through the expense and effort to hire someone on an H1-B visa is going to protect their investment unless the employee turns out to be a less than stellar employee. Also, someone on an H1-B can work for more than one employer or change employers.

For what it's worth, the organization I worked for had many highly educated Canadian employees who clearly had no problem working in the US.

Once again, the H1-B visa does not provide a path to citizenship. Some employers sonsor some of their H1-B employees to apply for a green card, but that is not the same as saying that “the H1-B visa provides a path to citizenship.”

Someone on an H1-B visa cannot change employers without first going through the process of applying for an H1-B transfer through their new employer. Given how reluctant most employers are to hire someone who doesn’t already have a green card, that makes it difficult for a person on an H1-B to change employers.

To work for more than one employer at the same time, a person on an H1-B has to convince their second employer to file for a “concurrent H-1B” and pay the filing fee. Otherwise, they will be violating the terms of their H-1B.

And finally, it is extremely difficult for Canadians to be able to work in the U.S. legally. They need an H1-B or a TN-1, which is only granted for very specialized or technical occupations. The fact that there are Canadians who work for your employer doesn’t mean any Canadian can easily get a work permit to work in the U.S. Quite the contrary.

Repeating falsehoods will not make them true. I suggest you do some research before spreading misinformation online.

Trump's statement said "potential path to citizenship." There is currently the potential to become a citizen for someone on an H1-B and that path is green card and then citizenship. I never said anyone and everyone always has a path. I said there is a path and that statement is true.

I also didn't say any Canadian can easily get a TN-1 or H1-B. I was responding to your comment that Canadians don't want to work in the US by saying that the organization I worked for had no trouble getting Canadians to work for us.

First of all, I didn’t say Canadians don’t want to work in the U.S. I said Canada is happy to grab the best H-1B workers that DUers love to hate.

You are highly misinformed about the H-1B visa. Many H-1B holders are not sponsored for a green card. Talk to some H-1B workers and see how comfortable they feel about their “path to citizenship”. If they happen to work for a good employer like a university (in which case they had to work like crazy to get tenure), they may not have problems, but there are plenty of employers out there who like having workers they have total control over. See:

https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-h-1b-visas-be-easier-to-get/h-1b-workers-are-in-a-state-of-indentured-servitude

You really have a need to call me misinformed, don't you? I have no idea what you do for a living, but I am a 35-year HR professional who just retired a year ago. I was involved on a daily basis with hiring and the visa process, working directly with our legal department and the prospective employees seeking employment, including many Canadians. I worked very closely with USCIS personnel and was required to continually attend their seminars as the laws and rules changed.

That's all I'm going to say on this subject with you.

highly skilled and pathway to citizenship are good things and I support it. But what we usually get is racism and lies.

There is a US congresswoman who was a former H-1b.

Would that include his own illegals working in his resorts?

my department was outsourced to folks with H1B Visas or working in Chennai India. I supported 2 scheduling softwares(Distributed and Mainframe) batch. First outsourcing/lost job was in 2001/2002.
We formed a group and monitored/picketed in Hotels in NYC where conferences were being held to teach companies how to outsource. We understood those meetings were conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

and never made sense to be. Its just another form of union busting without the union. H1B should have very limited use, not be used as a pathway to citizenship or for corporations to save a buck.

Funny he complains about "illegals" driving down wages for non-skilled jobs that most Americans don't want but thinks it's great to allow guest workers to drop wages for highly skilled workers.

I have to say I don't begrudge anyone who's capable and willing to work for a living. I find it repugnant that there are significant numbers of people in this country who truly believe one group of people is superior to another. i.e. George Orwell's "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

Their employer can choose to sponsor them for a green card. After five years as a permanent resident they can apply for citizenship.

See https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-h-1b-visas-be-easier-to-get/h-1b-workers-are-in-a-state-of-indentured-servitude