envision said:
Very well said. Why do
some Indians feel so persecuted? Heck , there are millions of people from all around the world waiting for green cards too and they don't complain half as much if not at all. I just sense that
"some" Indians believe the US own them
Well Envision, try to envision this, for EB2 ROW the Priority date is current, for EB2 India it is Unavailable. If the situation was the reverse then who do you think would frequent this board? You need to analyse this a bit!
US based programmers cannot be protected by this policy anyway. The fact is that this work is amenable to data transfer. US companies are only too aware of this fact and have used it at every juncture to persuade policy makers.
If US gov't stands firm on this rule, then corporate america can quite easily(and to some extent justifiably) move their development offshore more aggressively, and sadly for the protectionist elements there are no quotas on where the offshoring will go, so Anguilla with its 5000 people does not get a 7% quota, business will merely follow the talent and base its decisions on a business management approach.
There are 2 points at play here, this is most certainly a growth industry and there WILL be more jobs in this sector in the next 10 yrs, the question is where and at what pay? Gov't policys will determine this to a large extent. Furthermore looking at these still relatively high paying jobs in isolation is erroneous, the fact is they spur other less well paying jobs which inevitably overall strengthens the economy. So while US programmers may cry they are not getting the 100K they would like, from the countrys perspective it is better to have two 60K programmers and their lifetime of work and spending than have it all offshored, with those jobs and derivative benefits going elsewhere.
Regarding the other point of the wages paid for them, inherent in these jobs is the weakness that it is amenable to data transfer, the employers ie corporate america set that wage threshold at which they hire here not the US Gov't immigration policy makers or US dep't of labour and not even the trade unions of yesteryear........................welcome to the era of globalisation. The teamsters and other unions understand this and hence their push for allowing new workers if and where needed to come on green cards rather than go through a 5-10 yr period where their vulnerability puts an overall damper on everyones wages.
There is little anyone can do about this trend short of reinstalling trade and business barriers and restricting the movement of capital and goods and services. The winds of change however are not blowing in that direction and every country is afraid to start doing this as they will be left behind while everyone else develops their trading web.
US immigration policy is so clearly behind the curve on this and the rest of us have to wait while they figure it out!
There is a book out there called 3 billion capitalists,I strongly reccomend it, as it analyses these forces very well. It will not be easy to absorb all these people into the global capitalist system and for sure it will take a long time, but unless globalisation blows away for some reason, that is exactly what needs to happen. We small souls are caught in the cross currents of this huge undertaking.
