Why not just require AMERICANS to get visas in order to work in America, and quit the H-1B charade.

Apparently there is a real lack of executive talent as corporations have to pay higher and higher benefits to attract and retain executives.

And so few Americans looking for work.

I like this because my husband worked with a man who was here on an H1B visa and wanted to immigrate.

While he went through the process of acquiring a green card, he was the sole bread winner for his young family of 8. And his employer, knowing all the alternatives were crap, treated him like a slave. He couldn't go to work for another employer without starting the process all over again. He was obligated to his employer not only for a salary but for cooperation in the green card effort. Which they screwed up over and over and over again so that it took him over 10 years with 2 different employers.

His employer made him work awful hours. They broke the law in regards to how they treated him, but reporting it to the feds would have cost the employer no more than $1000 - if we were successful in documenting the violations to their satisfaction. And reporting the violations put his job - and thus his green card - at risk.

If nothing else, having a second source of income to help with legal fees (and maybe funded their own lawyer) would have sped up the process. It also would also have kept them off of food stamps.

I know all this because I helped them sort through all the BS the employer and their lawyer were throwing at them.

Through it all, their children couldn't get jobs. They couldn't go to college. The second class status of the family who wanted to immigrate to the US was clear and daunting.

I despise the H1B visa and how employers use it against workers here and those they bring in.

Let's not punish the families who just want to have a chance at a better life.

they will be citizens and can do that someday. And perhaps you are trying to get Bill Gates vote, or Mi$$ RobMe, knowing that those are the people who will benefit the most, will increase their wealth while skilled, intelligent, ordinary Americans will be denied the opportunities given to others. Good luck with that.

In the meantime, the people you fucked over probably aren't gonna be people you should count on...